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Umberto Eco
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born
January 05, 1932
in Alessandria, Italy
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco, William Weaver   4.02 avg rating — 55,142 ratings
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1980
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221 editions
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Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco, William Weaver   3.84 avg rating — 17,432 ratings
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1988
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102 editions
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Baudolino
by Umberto Eco, William Weaver , R.C.S. Libri 3.58 avg rating — 5,586 ratings
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2000
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73 editions
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The Island of the Day Before
3.35 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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1994
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63 editions
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco, Geoffrey Brock 3.29 avg rating — 3,708 ratings
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2004
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen 3.89 avg rating — 1,807 ratings
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2004
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35 editions
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On Ugliness
3.92 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
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2007
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22 editions
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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
by Umberto Eco, William Weaver 3.85 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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1992
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27 editions
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The Prague Cemetery
by Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon 3.20 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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2010
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Travels in Hyperreality
by Umberto Eco, John Radziewicz , William Weaver 3.84 avg rating — 995 ratings
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1986
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4 editions
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"In The Prague Cemetery, a new novel from the Renaissance man who gave us The Name of the Rose, a master forger stokes the flames of conspiracy in 19th-century Europe." ...More
"In The Prague Cemetery, a new novel from the Renaissance man who gave us The Name of the Rose, a master forger stokes the flames of conspiracy in 19th-century Europe." ...More
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“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
― Umberto Eco
― Umberto Eco
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