Author: Umberto Eco

Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants.In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author...

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery.The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William ...

Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom about the nature of beauty itself.On Beauty is neither a history of art,...

The final collection from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of ...

The most famous Italian novel, retold for children This marriage is not supposed to happen. Lombardy, 1628, a time of oppressive Spanish occupation...

Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty and we often define the first in order to un...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with ...

Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these confessions, the author, now in his late s...