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Series
Everyman's library volume 299
Language
English
Description
One after the other, half a dozen monks are found murdered in the most bizarre of ways. A learned Franciscan who is sent to solve the mysteries finds himself involved in the frightening events.
Author
Language
English
Description
19th-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.
Author
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Italian literary theorist and novelist Umberto Eco includes nine essays in this title concerning: the general significance of literature; major authors of the Western canon; the poetic qualities of Dante's 'Paradiso'; the style of the 'Communist Manifesto'; Joyce's views on language; and more.
Author
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
'Turning Back the Clock' is a collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco explains the tragic steps backwards that have been taken since the end of the last millennium.
Author
Publisher
MacLehose
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, ranks of soldiers, accounts of grotesque creatures, inventories of medicinal plants and hoards of treasure. Umberto Eco reflects on how the idea of catalogues has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times.