The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

by Umberto Eco (Translator: William Weaver)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Everyman's Library (2006-09-26)
ISBN: 0307264890
EAN: 9780307264893
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 600 pages
Edition: First Edition
Release Date: 2006-09-26
SKU: 5908707032
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: **A GREAT HARDBACK BOOK WITH A DUST COVER!** 1ST EDITION. 1983, HBJ. EARLY PRINT. HARDBACK BOOK, DUST COVER AND PAGES ARE IN MINT CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT. SHIPPED RAPIDLY BY EXPEDITED POSTAL MAIL, AND BY AIR MAIL, ALSO TO APO/AFO.

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A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is not only a gripping story but also a brilliant exploration of medieval philosophy, history, theology, and logic.

In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate a wealthy Italian abbey whose monks are suspected of heresy. When his mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths patterned on the book of Revelation, Brother William turns detective, following the trail of a conspiracy that brings him face-to-face with the abbey’s labyrinthine secrets, the subversive effects of laughter, and the medieval Inquisition. Caught in a power struggle between the emperor he serves and the pope who rules the Church, Brother William comes to see that what is at stake is larger than any mere political dispute–that his investigation is being blocked by those who fear imagination, curiosity, and the power of ideas.

The Name of the Rose offers the reader not only an ingeniously constructed mystery—complete with secret symbols and coded manuscripts—but also an unparalleled portrait of the medieval world on the brink of profound transformation.

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