Authors:Alexandre Dumas,  Umberto Eco,
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: library, everyman, cristo, monte, count
Number of Pages: 1240
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0307271129
ISBN-13: 9780307271129

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery—one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written—in a newly revised translation.This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dantès, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress, the Château d’If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him.Though a brilliant storyteller, Dumas was given to repe

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: semiotics, texts, advances, explorations, reader, role
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1984-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 025320318X
ISBN-13: 9780253203182

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Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: semiotics, advances, interpretation, limits
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0253208696
ISBN-13: 9780253208699

"Eco’s essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes.... Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and possibly revolutionary book." -- George J. Leonard, San Francisco Review of Books"... a wealth of insight and instruction." -- J. O. Tate, National Review"If anyone can make [semiotics] clear, it’s Professor Eco.... Professor Eco’s theme deserves respect; language should be used to communicate more easily without literary border guards." -- The New York Times"The limits of interpretation mark the limits of our world. Umberto Eco’

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: europe, making, language, perfect, search
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1995-11-06
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 0631174656
ISBN-13: 9780631174653

The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: essay, illustrated, lists, infinity
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-11-17
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0847832961
ISBN-13: 9780847832965

Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements, in his lyrical intellectual style he has embarked on an investigation of the phenomenon of cataloging and collecting. This book, featuring lavish reproductions of artworks from the Louvre and other world-famous collections, is a philosophical and artistic sequel to Eco’s recent acclaimed books, History of Beauty and On Ugliness, books in which he delved into the psychology, philosophy, history, a

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: semiotics, advances, theory
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 1978-11-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0253202175
ISBN-13: 9780253202178

’Eco’s very erudite and provocative book draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship, both European and American. It raises many fascinating questions which merit considerable probing.’-Language in Society

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: pendulum, foucault
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-03-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 015603297X
ISBN-13: 9780156032971

Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse character