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Umberto Eco


Born
in Alessandria, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
January 05, 1932

Died
February 19, 2016

Genre

Influences


Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.

Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco
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The Name of the Rose

4.14 avg rating — 406,730 ratings — published 1980 — 304 editions
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Foucault’s Pendulum

3.91 avg rating — 76,513 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
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History of Beauty

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The Prague Cemetery

3.51 avg rating — 31,010 ratings — published 2010 — 194 editions
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Baudolino: A Medieval Liter...

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On Ugliness

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The Island of the Day Before

3.50 avg rating — 16,641 ratings — published 1994 — 20 editions
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Numero zero

3.17 avg rating — 14,929 ratings — published 2015 — 52 editions
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Il fascismo eterno

4.31 avg rating — 10,666 ratings — published 1995 — 43 editions
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The Mysterious Flame of Que...

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“We live for books.”
Umberto Eco

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
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“To survive, you must tell stories.”
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The Japanese Lover The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende by Isabel Allende From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War.
 
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The Night Guest The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane by Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane’s hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about aging, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn’t be.
 
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The Color of Light The Color of Light by Karen White by Karen WhiteAt thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found.
 
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Lost Among the Living Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James by Simone St. JamesEngland, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband’s origins…and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths’ past is just the beginning…
 
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Mendel's Dwarf Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer by Simon MawerLike his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia—he's a dwarf.
 
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Tape Tape by Steven Camden by Steven CamdenRecord a voice and it lasts forever…

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The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco by Umberto EcoThe year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.
 
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The Two-Family House The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman by Lynda Cohen LoigmanBrooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women.From debut novelist Lynda Cohen Loigman comes The Two-Family House, a moving family saga filled with heart, emotion, longing, love, and mystery.
 
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