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On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea by Umberto Eco
59.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, On Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diverse readership. Pa ...Show more
On Literature by Umberto Eco
29.99 NZD
Category: 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 (ed.)
95.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
This book is the follow up to the previous volume, "On Beauty". Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of uglin ...Show more
On the Shoulders of Giants by Umberto Eco
75.00 NZD
Category: Essays
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
Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
27.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | 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
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
69.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art
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 Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto, a young nobleman, waits alone on a Pacific island, separated from the island beyond: the island of the day before.
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: General 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
59.95 NZD
Category: 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
23.99 NZD
Category: 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 Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; William Weaver (translator)
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
38.99 NZD
Category: General 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