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- Product Code:
- Foucault's Pendulum
- Reward Points:
- 44
- Author:
- Umberto Eco, Eco, William Weaver
- Book Condition:
- As New
- ISBN:
- 0151327653
Three Milan editors, who have spent much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult, decide to have a little fun. Their plan encompasses the secrets of the solar system, Satanic initiation rites, and Brazilian voodoo. A terrific joke--until people begin to disappear.
A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, among other things-that suddenly becomes all too real. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Umberto Eco has contributed to Foucault's Pendulum as an author. UMBERTO ECO is Professor of Semiotics, University of Bologna. He is known worldwide as the author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and A Theory of Semiotics.
William Weaver has contributed to Foucault's Pendulum as a translator. WILLIAM WEAVER has been the leading translator of Italian writing into English for half a century and several samples of his own work are included in 'Open City,' Among his previous books is 'A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti,' Weaver divides his year among Italy, New York City, and Annandale-on-Hudson, where he is on the faculty of Bard College.
A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, among other things-that suddenly becomes all too real. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Umberto Eco has contributed to Foucault's Pendulum as an author. UMBERTO ECO is Professor of Semiotics, University of Bologna. He is known worldwide as the author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and A Theory of Semiotics.
William Weaver has contributed to Foucault's Pendulum as a translator. WILLIAM WEAVER has been the leading translator of Italian writing into English for half a century and several samples of his own work are included in 'Open City,' Among his previous books is 'A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti,' Weaver divides his year among Italy, New York City, and Annandale-on-Hudson, where he is on the faculty of Bard College.
| Book | |
|---|---|
| Book Condition | As New |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) |
| Publish Date | 30-11-89 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 0151327653 |
| EAN | 9780151327652 |
| No. of Pages | 656 |
| Binding | Hardbound Trade |