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The Book Club: A Nobel Prize winner and the next story in Nita Prose’s ‘Maid’ series
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… author Tony Horwitz, Brooks soldiers on, completes her award-winning novel … “Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World,” … ? I especially appreciated revisiting Umberto Eco’s “Name of the … Archive, 2022)
This novella, first published in 2000, is, on …
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Everything we know about Squid Game creator’s ‘controversial’ next project inspired by bestselling author
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… by the works of Umberto Eco.
Known for the novels The Name of … which works from the Italian author he’s drawing from as …
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Around the world in 12 novels — an expert’s guide
26 Jun 2025 18:20 GMT
… tremendous trick of a novel, half Umberto Eco’s The Name of … . This, his most famous book, is a beautifully melancholy account … ’s shimmering landscape, the book also satirises Italy’s flirtations … home instead.
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Have books, will travel: Confessions of a globetrotting bibliophile
18 Jun 2025 14:16 GMT
… Louisiana. Putting up a bookshelf is usually neither here nor … to house these errant books, generally handled the influx … on a Cambodian beach. Books sometimes have their own circuitous … of legendary Italian writer Umberto Eco and Lebanese American scholar …
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Librarians breathe easy as tool spots toxic book pigment
08 Jun 2025 17:37 GMT
… tongues, as in the novel by Umberto Eco and the film of … different book poisoning in The Name of the Rose
Publishers used … University isolated about 60,000 books, with other German universities … institutions to isolate swathes of books.
The device, developed in …
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An expert’s guide to Postmodernism: five must-read books on the movement
03 Jun 2025 14:23 GMT
… circulated and influential architectural books of all time: an … and universal truths, the book emphasises the importance of … and Steven Izenour
“This book challenges Modernist architecture’s … Postmodernism in architecture, Umberto Eco’s novel is regarded as one …
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Top 100 books released in the last century shared by Goodreads
29 May 2025 09:06 GMT
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Essentially, if you read one book from each year of release … just choosing the most ‘popular’ book from each year, as they … classics, along with a few books you probably read in your … Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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46 father-son quotes that celebrate the bond between boys and dads
04 Jul 2025 00:07 GMT
… little scraps of wisdom." ― Umberto Eco
“I decided in my life … ’t come with an instruction book — that’s why we have …
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The Bookshelf: Betrayal and Witness
02 May 2025 00:28 GMT
In Changing Places, the first novel in his campus trilogy, David … to read. (See Umberto Eco on having many unread books in one’s … ; I’m aware of two books published since 2000 that claim he … Monthly. She too believed the author’s testimony against Hiss, and …
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Eight books that evoke the spirit of Rome
25 Apr 2025 05:35 GMT
… , even though it wasn’t published until the 18th century. The … , where she settled, the American author spent a lot of time … William Weaver (who also did Umberto Eco’s The Name of the … of arguably the greatest Italian novel depicting the time, Elsa Morante …