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The Name Of The Rose
A masterwork of historical fiction and intellectual suspense, The Name of the Rose chronicles a series of mysterious deaths at a wealthy Italian abbey in the year 1327, as the...
The Name of the Rose
The ground-breaking first novel from Umberto Eco - a murder mystery, an enthralling chronicle of the Middle Ages, a piece of biblical analysis and a stunning popular and critical success...
Foucault's Pendulum
A brilliantly executed intellectual detective story from the author of international best seller The Name of the Rose. Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on...
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
The final book from one of Europe's cultural giants- an entertaining collection of essays about the modern world - from unbridled individualism to mobile phones Umberto Eco was an international...
The Prague Cemetery
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Island of the Day Before
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." - The Atlantic One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco...
Island of the Day Before
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Baudolino
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Foucault's Pendulum
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Postscript To The Name Of The Rose
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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear with slight fading to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark. Binding: Tight and secure. A landmark work of literary...
Conversations About the End of Time
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Belief or Nonbelief?
Standing on opposite sides of the church door, Umberto Eco, author and committed agnostic, and Cardinal Martini, the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, discuss the controversies and burning issues of our...
The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
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Apocalypse Postponed
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Letters 1941-1985
The first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'No, I don't hate being black. I'm just tired of saying it's beautiful. No, I don't hate myself. I'm just tired...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
New to Penguin Modern Classics, Calvino's first novel Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs...
Tales from the Decameron
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories...
The Decameron
Penguin Classics relaunch. In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a...
A Book Addict's Treasury
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Collection of Sand: Essays
Calvino's fascinating and cerebral collection of essays celebrating all aspects of the visual, translated for the first time and new to Penguin Modern Classics Italo Calvino claimed that 'the brain...
The Experience of Pain
The first novel from one of Italy's most innovative writers of the 20th century 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are...
In Conversation: Encounters with 39 Great Writers
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Literature and Evil
An extraordinary collection of essays arguing for literature's complicity with evil, new to Penguin Modern Classics 'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays,...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
Nietzsche's final testament of his beliefs In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one...
HOPE: The Autobiography
The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis. The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously....
A Mapmaker's Dream
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino....
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
Burke's hugely influential work - particularly in art - on the sublime and the beautiful Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely...
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed...
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she...
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
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The Carrier
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The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE meets the HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER"I don't think I have read such a philosophical, knowledge-studded and realistic adventure...
Emma
Reissued with a new cover and lower price as part of Penguin Classics overhaul of Jane Austen's editions The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and...
The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
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To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes...
Between Self And World: The Novels Of Jane Austen
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Author: James ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some silverfish damage on DJ.This academic study, Between...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
They say that sometimes ghosts don't realise they're dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in show business you may have been dead...
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave...
Heretical Empiricism
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Self Consciousness: Memoirs
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