The name of the rose (eBook, 1994) [Texas Group Catalog]
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The name of the rose

The name of the rose

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1994.
Series: A Harvest book; Harvest in translation.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : Fiction : English : 1st Harvest edView all editions and formats
Summary:
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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Genre/Form: Detective and mystery stories
Historical fiction
Didactic fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Church history
Fiction
History
Mystery fiction
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Eco, Umberto.
Name of the rose.
San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1994
(DLC) 94013818
(OCoLC)30399715
Material Type: Document, Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780547575148 0547575149 9781448137749 1448137748
OCLC Number: 770702096
Notes: "Including the author's postcript."
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Includes English translation of: Il postille a Il nome della rosa.
Description: 1 online resource (536 pages) : illustrations
Series Title: A Harvest book; Harvest in translation.
Other Titles: Nome della rosa.
Responsibility: Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

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Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this title offers a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, and also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders,  Read more...
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The late medieval world, teetering on the edge of discoveries and ideas that will hurl it into one more recognisably like ours...evoked with a force and wit that are breathtaking * Financial Times * Read more...

 

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