Umberto Eco
Inventing the Enemy
57%
A collection of timely essays by the internationally acclaimed and bestselling essayist,…
On Ugliness
68%
Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of…
On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea
65%
On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both…
Foucault's Pendulum
56%
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the…
Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
76%
After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's…
On Ugliness
68%
This book is the follow up to the previous volume, «On Beauty». Apparently beauty and ugliness are…
The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
67%
Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind…
On Literature
58%
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major…
The Name Of The Rose
87%
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother…
On Beauty
56%
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the…
Baudolino
65%
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked…
Kant And The Platypus
89%
How we know that a cat is a cat is a nice philosophical poser, and has been since the time of…
The Island Of The Day Before
77%
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends…
Faith in Fakes
67%
By the author of «The Name of the Rose», these essays, written over the last 20 years and culled…