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Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forger ...Show more
Serendipities : Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco (tr William Weaver)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous | Reading Level: good
The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. In this work, Umberto Eco demonstrates how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco's words, "even errors can produce interesting side effects". This book shows how: believers in ...Show more
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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 Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco
$60.00 NZD
Category: General
In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, rosters of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes of treasure. The poetics of lists can be found from Homer to Joyce, from the treasures of Gothic cathedrals to the fantastic landscapes of Bosch and cabinets ...Show more
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn ...Show more
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana : An illustrated novel by Umberto Eco
$59.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This remarkable illustrated novel is set to become Eco's most accessible and bestselling book since The Name of the Rose. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana has two acts. Each act revolves around a stroke. The first stroke - the opening - takes away the protagonist's lived memory. In other words, Yambo ...Show more
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
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