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Binding: Audio CassetteDewey Decimal Number: 853.914 EAN: 9781559273619 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 1559273615 Label: Macmillan Audio Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: October 15, 1995 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Studio: Macmillan Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The international bestseller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror. Brother William turns detective, and a uniquely deft one at that. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon-- all sharpened to a glistening edge by his wry humor and ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where "the most interesting things happen at night." As Brother William goes about unraveling the mystery of what happens at the abbey by day and by night, listeners step into a brilliant re-creation of the fourteenth century, with its dark superstitions and wild prejudices, its hidden passions and sordid intrigues. Virtuoso storyteller Umberto Eco conjures up a gloriously rich portrait of this world with such grace, ease, wit and love that you will become utterly intoxicated with the place and time. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - suspenseful and intelligentI am not much of a suspense/thriller fan, but this book captivated me completely, probably because it is not our contemporary "suspense" fiction. Obviously, it is extremely well written with vivid and lively scenes and characters, but also it is written on solid and skillfully layered foundations of universal curiosity on important issues and the conflicts between them. God, Devil, human intellect, free will, politics, and survival of political and religious entities in the intellectually mobile ... Read More Rating: - Early Postmodern NovelI read "Il Nome della Rosa" in Italian, published by Bompiani, when I was sixteen and deeply loved it. In fact I devoured it, and then I read it again, and then again soon after. I was then in the midst of my classical studies, thus already quite equipped to decipher the countless references and allusions Prof. Eco makes. Indeed, this is not an history novel, rather a meta-historical one, in which semiotics and postmodernism converge. What Wharol did for pop culture, making Marilyn Monroe ... Read More Rating:  - THE NAME OF THE ROSE (GRUPPO EDITORIALE FABBRI-BOMPIANI, SONZOGNO, ETAS S.p.A/1980)REVIEW: As as literary phenomenon: Umberto Eco's "THE NAME OF THE ROSE" is also one of the oddest and most original novels of the last century. On the surface it details a very unusual and forthright murder investigation at an unnamed Italian abbey in the early 1300's. The crimes themselves are apocalyptic in nature as they seem to mirror the judgment of the seven trumpets as mentioned in the book of "REVELATION". The detective "on the case" (as it were) is a Franciscan monk (and former inquisitor) named ... Read More Rating: - Learned and fastLearned and fast because rarely does someone so intelligent find a way to jam so much thought into such a fast plot. THis book continues to be the best introduction to Eco's fiction, the one you should read before the others (and then you'll want to read the others too, but I'm not sure that the process would work the other way). Rating: - Gripping mystery telling a story of religious life in another centuryIt's a fabulous WHODUNIT!! The characters come alive with the author's fascinating description of physical characteristics, his telling from whence each person came to this abbey, and through personality traits. The reader feels like he is meeting each of them in real life. The book starts out with one unsolved murder and the plot gets more and more involved as more people meet their demise. Also, the observations of a seasoned veteran of the church are constantly compared ... Read More 
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