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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 |
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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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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 * A novel of sunning intelligence, linguistic richness, thematic complexity * Il Giorno * This novel belongs with Voltaire' philosophical tales-in the entertaining guise of an erudite fiction story, it is also a vibrant plea for freedom, moderation and wisdom * L'Express * A brilliant deconstruction of the traditional crime novel -- Iain Rankin * Mail on Sunday * Whether you’re into Sherlock Holmes, Montaillou, Borges, the nouvelle critique, the Rule of St. Benedict, metaphysics, library design, or The Thing from the Crypt, you’ll love it. Who can that miss out? * Sunday Times * Read more...