The Name of the Rose
$56.82
- Hardcover
600 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2006
Summary
Beautifully bound, hardback edition of Umberto Eco’s masterpiece.
Introduced by David Lodge; Novelist and critic.
Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the tale of his investigations. Eco’s celebrated story combines elements of detective fiction, metaphysical thriller, post-modernist puzzle and historical novel in one of the few twentieth-…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152999 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152999 |
| Author: | Umberto Eco |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 133mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics Review
’[It} confirms Eco as an outstanding writer of philosophy dressed as fiction’
’[It} confirms Eco as an outstanding writer of philosophy dressed as fiction’ – Stephanie Merrit * Observer *‘Eco does something rare: he makes ideas moving’ – Michael Pye * Scotsman *
About The Author
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is the author of bestselling novels Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before and, most recently, Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. He is also the author of On Beauty. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Italy.
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