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Baudolino by Umberto Eco
$27.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors ...Show more
Chronicles of A Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco
$8.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco's iconic essay 'Ur-Fascism', which lists the four ...Show more
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"Inventing the Enemy" covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels - exploring lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world in the process - to a disquisition on the theme ...Show more
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
$43.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Inventing the Enemy" covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels - exploring lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world in the process - to a disquisition on the theme ...Show more
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
$32.95 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
From the world famous author of In The Name of the Rose, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, bro ...Show more
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
$36.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost ...Show more
On Literature by Umberto Eco
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next three essays centre on nineteenth- and ...Show more
On Ugliness by Umberto Eco (University of Bologna I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna)
$40.00 NZD
Category: General
In the mold of his acclaimed "History of Beauty," renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco's "On Ugliness" is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appe ...Show more
On the Shoulders of Giants by Umberto Eco
$75.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompani ...Show more