Umberto Eco, Author, Eco, Author , trans. from the Italian by Alastair McEwen. Harcourt $23 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-100446-1
Most famous for his complex, erudite novels, semiotician and literary theorist Eco (Foucault's Pendulum, etc.) devotes these occasional essays primarily to the quest for tolerance in an intolerant world and to the intellectual responsibility of...
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Umberto Eco, Author, Eco, Author, William Weaver, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-15-132765-2
If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel--also an intellectual blockbuster--should prove more accessible. This complex psychological thriller chronicles...
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Umberto Eco, Author, Eco, Author, William Weaver, Translator Harcourt Brace $36 (528p) ISBN 978-0-15-100151-4
In this tale of an Italian nobleman shipwrecked in the South Pacific in 1643, Eco's storytelling abilities and his love for esoteric historical detail, so beautifully balanced in The Name of the Rose, are sadly out of kilter, with the arcana...
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Umberto Eco, Author, Eco, Author, Jacques Le Goff, Editor Wiley-Blackwell $97.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-631-17465-3
Before the bewildering Babel of tongues described in Genesis, humanity had just one perfect language, originating in the Garden of Eden, or so theologians and philosophers believed from the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance. In this erudite study,...
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Umberto Eco, Author, Eco, Author, Alastair McEwen, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $34 (464p) ISBN 978-0-15-100447-8
Consider the platypus. With its famous molelike body carrying a beaver's tail and a duck's beak, the beast confounded the first Western scientists who studied it in 1798. Was it a mammal or a reptile? Did it lay eggs? Was it just a taxonomic hoax?...
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