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From Homer's poems to contemporary science fiction, literature through the ages has continuously invented imaginary and legendary lands, projecting there all those wishes, dreams, utopias and nightmares that are too intrusive and challenging for our limited daily reality. Umberto Eco leads us on an illustrated journey through these distant, unknown lands: introducing us to their inhabitants, their heroes and villains, the passions and preoccupations that shaped them, always mindful of the continued importance of myth and legend to modern life and conciousness. Placing ancient and medieval texts beside contemporary stories, films beside poems, comics beside novels, it is a journey that is both erudite and enjoyable, and one that only Eco could have created.
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'The illustrations are fabulous evocations of places their makers could see only in their mind's-eyes ... Eco's book is a reminder that writers and readers once travelled widely and magnificently, without ever leaving their homes or their heads' Ben Macintyre, The Times. (The Times)
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Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose (1982), was a huge bestseller which brought him worldwide acclaim. With his subsequent works of fiction, philosophy, literary criticism and semiotics, he has been recognised as one of Europe's finest thinkers. He is currently President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Humanistici and the University of Bologna.
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- EditoreQuercus Publishing
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 085705287X
- ISBN 13 9780857052872
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine400
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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MacLehose Press (an imprint of Quercus), London, 2013
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ISBN 13: 9780857052872
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The Book of Legendary Lands
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MacLehose Press, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 085705287X
ISBN 13: 9780857052872
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