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The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
$60.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From Homer's poems to contemporary science fiction, literature through the ages has continuously invented imaginary and legendary lands, projecting there all those wishes, dreams, utopias and nightmares that are too intrusive and challenging for our limited daily reality. Umberto Eco leads us on an illu ...Show more
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missin ...Show more
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto, a young nobleman, waits alone on a Pacific island, separated from the island beyond: the island of the day before.
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; William Weaver (translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.
The Name of the Rose (Vintage Past) by Umberto Eco
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and cod ...Show more
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. ...Show more
This Is Not the End of the Book: A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered". (Umberto Eco). These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them adm ...Show more
This is Not the End of the Book - Two great men discuss our digital future by Umberto Eco & Jean-Claude Carrière
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Turning Back the Clock is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's "Great Game", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Ye ...Show more