Umberto Eco

• Jun-1983
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The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey. And the crimes committed here are beyond the wildest imaginings. It will be the task of English Brother William of Baskerville to decipher secret symbols and dig into the eerie labyrinth of abbey life t...

• May-1986
• / General Fiction
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A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times).   Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and...

• 1988
• / Suspense
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Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspicious...

• Jan-1989
• / Suspense
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• Feb-1989
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1989
• / General Fiction
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A Martian's concern for a frightened bird shows three space explorers from America, Russia, and China that just because two creatures look different doesn't mean they have to be enemies.
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• Oct-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1994
• / General Fiction
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“Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly).   A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “...

• Nov-1995
• / General Fiction
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A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this “astonishing intellectual journey" by the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle).   In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific l...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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How do we know a cat is a cat . . . and why do we call it a cat? An “intriguing and often fascinating” look at words, perceptions, and the relationship between them (Newark Star-Ledger).   In Kant and the Platypus, the renowne...

• Oct-2002
• / Suspense
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A self-confessed liar spins a fascinating tale of his life in this “comic and brilliantly baffling” historical novel by the author of The Name of the Rose (The Guardian, UK).  Constantinople, 1204. The Byzantine capital is under siege by the...

• Jun-2005
• / General Fiction
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Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and ...

• Nov-2011
• / Historical
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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 b...

• Nov-2015
• / Political Thriller
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From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A parano...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in i...