Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria, Italy. He is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, a philosopher, historian, literary critic and aesthetician. He is the author of the international bestselling novels The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before, as well as three collections of popular essays, Travels in Hyperreality, Misreadings and How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays. Mr. Eco lives in Milan.
Books by the Author
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco; Read by Theodore Bikel
Macmillan Audio
Macmillan Audio
The international bestseller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy.
The Name of the Rose
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian...
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Why Italians Love to Talk About Food
Elena Kostioukovitch; Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel; Forewords by Umberto Eco and Carol Field
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Italians love to talk about food. The aroma of a simmering ragú, the bouquet of a local wine, the remembrance of a past meal: Italians discuss these details as naturally as we talk about...
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Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco; Read by Tim Curry
Macmillan Audio
Macmillan Audio
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, abridged digital audiobook read by Tim Curry
One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, a carefully-groomed mustache, wears...
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The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco; Read by Tim Curry
Macmillan Audio
Macmillan Audio
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, abridged digital audiobook read by Tim Curry
After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself...
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