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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (1932-2016)

philosopher, essayist, pedagogue, translator, semiotician, literary critic, medievalist, literary scholar, historian

  • University of Turin

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Il nome della rosa
Il pendolo di Foucault
Il cimitero di Praga
Signo de Los Tres, El - Dupin-Holmes-Pierce
Numero zero
Tên của đóa hồng
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Essays
La Misteriosa fiamma della Regina Loana
Kant e l'ornitorinco
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Belief or Nonbelief?
History Of Beauty
The search for the perfect language
Vertigine della lista
Six promenades dans les bois du roman et d'ailleurs
Storia figurata delle invenzioni
This Is Not the End of the book
The Meaning of Meaning
Diario minimo
Tratado de Semiotica General
Apocalipticos E Integrados/ Apocalyptics and integrators (Filosofia)
Cómo se hace una tesis
La Struttura Assente
On literature
Opera Aperta
The Story of Time
The three astronauts
The middle ages of James Joyce
L'isola del giorno prima
La bustina di minerva
On Ugliness
Comment voyager avec un saumon
Enrico Baj
La bomba e il generale
Platon im Striptease-Lokal
I limiti dell'interpretazione
Il problema estetico in Tommaso d'Aquino
Postille a Il nome della rosa
Il superuomo di massa
Dire quasi la stessa cosa
La guerre du faux
Interprétation et surinterpretation
On Beauty
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
- M
Candida Hofer
A passo di gambero
La riscoperta dell'America
Incontro =
The role of the reader
Sobre Literatura
Talking of Joyce
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
Einführung in die Semiotik
Stories upon Stories
Sémiotique et philosophie du langage
Meaning and Mental Representation (Advances in Semiotics)
Experiences in translation
Art et beauté dans l'esthétique médiévale
Baudolino
Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
Beato di Liébana
Faith in fakes
Poetry of Translation
Tres cuentos
Cinq questions de morale
Carnival!
Pastiches et Postiches
Número Cero
Conversations About the End of Time
Migración e intolerancia / Migration and Intolerance
Sugli specchi e altri saggi
A hombros de gigantes
Serendipities Italian Academy Lectures
La historia de la belleza
A paso de cangrejo/ At a Crab's Pace
La recherche de la langue parfaite dans la culture européenne
Francesco Vezzoli : TV 70
Semiotica y Filosofia del Lenguaje
Derrick oder Die Leidenschaft für das Mittelmaß. Streichholzbriefe 1990 - 2000
Il segno
Cult Of Vespa
In cosa crede chi non crede?
Wie man mit einem Lachs verreist und andere nützliche Ratschläge
Inventing the Enemy
Entre Mentira e Ironia
Inventing the Enemy
The Rainbow Harmonica Instruction and Song Book
Imi︠a︡ rozy
N - Z
Historia de la fealdad. - 1. edición
On the Shoulders of Giants
La storia de I promessi sposi raccontata da Umberto Eco
Lector In Fabula
En Qui Creen los Que No Creen?
L'Ile Du Jour D'Avant
Le problème esthétique chez Thomas d'Aquin
Historia de las tierras y los lugares legendarios
Im Labyrinth der Vernunft
Derrick oder Die Leidenschaft für das Mittelmaß. Neue Streichholzbriefe
Wie man eine wissenschaftliche Abschlußarbeit schreibt. Doktor-, Diplom- und Magisterarbeit in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Gli gnomi di gnù
La definición del arte
Confessions of a young novelist
Los Tres Astronautas/ The Three Astronauts
La recherche de la langue parfait dans la cultute européenne
Il costume di casa
A Semiotic Landscape Panaroma Semiotique
L'Île du jour d'avant
La quête d'une langue parfaite dans l'histoire de la culture européenne
The Book Of Legendary Lands
Las Poeticas de Joyce
Cristianesimo e politica
De bibliotheca
Segundo Diario Minimo
COMO VIAJAR CON UN SALMÓM
How to Spot a Fascist
Bibliography
Poesie
Umberto Eco
Prazhskoe kladbishe
La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea
Seis Paseos Por Los Bosques Narrativos
Writers and politics
Inventing the enemy and other occasional writings
Tra menzogna e ironia
πρώτο ελάχιστο ημερολόγιο
Die Geschichte der Häßlichkeit
Het nulnummer
Kunst und Schönheit im Mittelalter
La memoria vegetale e altri scritti di bibliofilia
Scritti sul pensiero medievale
Que Hacemos Con Los Pobres? (Nuevo siglo)
Pape Satàn
Dall'albero al labirinto
Temat na pierwsza strone
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK; TRANS. BY ALASTAIR MCEWEN
Gesammelte Streichholzbriefe
MOUSE OR RAT?: TRANSLATION AS NEGOTIATION
Polnyj nazad! / A passo di gambero: guerre calde e populismo mediatico
Mein verrücktes Italien. Verstreute Notizen aus vierzig Jahren
Stelle & stellette
Contra el fascismo
Im Wald der Fiktionen. Sechs Streifzüge durch die Literatur
Cecü'nün Yer Cüceleri
Sämtliche Glossen und Parodien
Streit der Interpretationen
Lüge und Ironie. Vier Lesarten zwischen Klassik und Comic
Woran glaubt, wer nicht glaubt
Cremonini
El Signo
Nullnummer
Carnaval !
Ostrov nakanune
Gülün Adi
de Los Espejos y Otros Ensayos
Strutture ed eventi dell'economia alessandrina
Im Labyrinth der Vernunft. Texte über Kunst und Zeichen
Storia della bellezza
Le forme del contenuto
Leggere i Promessi sposi
Contra el feixisme
Shadow of Reason
El Libro de Los Laberintos
The Story of the Betrothed
Sette anni di desiderio
Güzelliğin tarihi
Environmental information
I tre cosmonauti
Como Se Estudia
La Edad Media, II. Catedrales, caballeros y ciudades
Il problema estetico in Tomasso d'Aquino
On the medieval theory of signs
Het eiland van de vorige dag
Naming the Rose
De naam van de roos & Naschrift
Schöne Bescherungen. Komische phantastische Geschichten
Sociologia de La Creacion Literaria
La production des signes
DECIR CASI LO MISMO
Pape Satàn aleppe
Algunas consideraciones acerca de las lenguas perfectas
Eugenio Carmi
Histoire de la beauté
Die Grenzen der Interpretation
Die Bücher und das Paradies. Über Literatur
Edad Media, La IV. Exploraciones, comercio y utopías
Com viatjar amb un salmó
La Estrategia De La Illusion
La Nueva Edad Media
Le isole del tesoro
Construir al enemigo
Il fascismo eterno
Sulla Letteratura
Die Bibliothek
Das offene Kunstwerk
A paso de cangrejo
History of beauty
Sulla televisione
Dalla periferia dell'Impero
Semiotica
Victor Hugo y el vértigo de la narración
La Edad Media, I. Bárbaros, cristianos y musulmanes
Carnival!
Italy
Il superuomo di massa
Le rôle du lecteur
L'expérience des images
Stampa e mondo politico oggi
The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System
Im Wald der Fiktionen
Vocali
De Naam van de Roos
Über Gott und die Welt. Essays und Glossen
Sette Anni Di Desiderio
Sport ist Mord. Texte zur Abwehr körperlicher Betätigung
Looking for a Logic of Culture
Mimarlık Göstergebilimi
Sator arepo eccetera
L'expérience des images
Felsefe Tarihi 2
Lo strano caso della Hanau 1609
Conceito de Texto
Yi ge qing nian xiao shuo jia de zi bai
Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari
SOBRE LA LITERATURA
Ortacag 2 .Cilt
La comunicación
Die Suche nach der vollkommenen Sprache
Luoghi del silenzio imparziale
16. Yüzyil Rönesans Çagi
Los cómics de Mao
Sette anni di desiderio
Das Ende der Zeiten
Apokalyptiker und Integrierte. Zur kritischen Kritik der Massenkultur
De geschiedenis van imaginaire landen en plaatsen
La struttura assente
Out of chaos
A paso de cangrejo
Zapiski na pudełku od zapałek
La vie est un rêve, Charlie Brown
Yengec Adimlariyla, Sicak Savaslar ve Medyatik Populizm
Antik Roma
Ortacag 4. Cilt
Mei gui de ming zi
Otkroveni︠i︡a molodogo romanista
L'Espresso, 1955/85
Povero Pinocchio
DE BIBLIOTHECA
Leonardo Cremonini
Il Cinquecento
Krizia
Rol£ chitateliŁa
Beauty
Sull'arte
El museo
De superman au surhomme
Wymyślanie wrogów
Numele trandafirului
From the Tree to the Labyrinth
Ortacagi Düslemek
L'ILLA DEL DIA ABANS.......L'ANCORA
L'Uomo e l'arte ...
Menas ir grožis viduramžių estetikoje
Nos Ombros dos Gigantes
Il Novecento
Ortacag Estetiginde Sanat Ve Güzell
Ertelenmiş Kıyamet
Düsman Yaratmak
Carmi
El Fin de Los Tiempos
De bibliotheca
Il Seicento
Esperanto ve Cok Dilli Bir Gelecek
Estetica e teoria dell'informazione
Sifir Sayi
Il Medioevo
Trzy opowiesci
Role of the Reader
Felsefe Tarihi 3
Yoman zaʻir
'Changmi ŭi irŭm' ch'angjak not'ŭ
Sign, Symbol, Code
SEGON DIARI MINIM..........L'ANCORA
Le rôle du lecteur, ou, La coopération interprétative dans les textes narratifs
Filosofi in libertà
Podziemni bogowie
Avrupa Kulturunde Kusursuz Dil Arayisi
Rakiem
Ostrov nakanune
Das Mädchen aus der Volkskommune
Costruire il nemico e altri scritti occasionali
Storia figurata delle invenzioni
El superhombre de masas
Jak podróżować z łososiem?
DELS MIRALLS...............L'ANCORA
Bara no namae
Comment écrire sa thèse
Museum Environment HB
Poetiki Dzhoisa
Cultura y semiótica
Antik Yunan
El Redescubrimiento de America
La filosofia e le sue storie
De la estupidez a la locura
De la estupidez a la locura
Die Geschichte der legendären Länder und Städte
Apocalypse Postponed
Acik Yapit
Construire l'ennemi
L'Ottocento
Le figure del tempo
Psicologia do Vestir
DIARI MINIM................L'ANCORA
Semiotica della letteratura in URSS
Die Insel des vorigen Tages
Die Kunst des Bücherliebens
Ortacag 3. Cilt
Il superuomo di massa
Semiotic Landscape. Panorama Sémiotique
Yorum ve aṣırı yorum
Popüler Roman Kahramanları
Bes Ahlak Yazisi
Sur les épaules des géants
Budalaliktan Delilige
La Rosa dipinta
Önceki Günün Adası
Kasei ni itta sannin no uchū hikōshi
La metafora nel Medioevo
Los Novios
Umjetnost i ljepota u srednjevekovnoj estetici
Trzecie zapiski na pudełku od zapałek
Documenti su il nuovo medioevo
Le musée, demain
Bitkisel Hafıza ve Bibliyofili Üzerine Diğer Yazılar
Tez Nasil Yazilir?
Storia della bruttezza
O literature
Construir Al Enemigo / Building the Enemy
L'idea deforme
Die geheimnisvolle Flamme der Königin Loana
Sobre Literatura / on Literature
University and mass media
Zwischen Autor und Text. Interpretation und Überinterpretation
History of Beauty and on Ugliness
Croire en quoi?
Bekenntnisse eines jungen Schriftstellers
Hepsi Sana Miras Serisi 3 - Nisanlilar
Genc Bir Romancinin Itiraflari
Il Settecento
LES FIANCES
Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala
Günlük Yaşamdan Sanata
Where Are You?
Historia da Feiura (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Le Donne al muro
Devlerin Omuzlarında
Perché continuiamo a fare e a insegnare arte?
Efsanevi Yerlerin Tarihi
Cirkinligin Tarihi
Edebiyata Dair
La memoria vegetale
Sulle spalle dei giganti
Felsefe Tarihi
The Name of the Rose (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books)
The Bond affair
Antik Yakindogu
Nadie acabará con los libros
Somon Baligiyla Yolculuk
Anlatı Ormanlarında Altı Gezinti
Filosofi in libertà
Efsanevi Yerlerin Tarihi-Büyük Boy
Maiatnik Fuko
To onoma tou vodou
Effetto Eco
À reculons comme une écrevisse
Vegetal and Mineral Memory - The Future of Books
Como Se Faz Uma Tese (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Faith in Fakes
Inventing the Enemy
Diario minimo
Pa Pei Sa Dan a Lai Pei : Pape Sat©n Aleppe
Die Fabrikation des Feindes und andere Gelegenheitsschriften
La estructura ausente
Jak napisac prace dyplomowa Poradnik dla humanistow
Cronicile unei societati lichide
Istorii͡a urodstva
Broché - Le nom de la rose
Inanc ya da Inancsizlik
Yorum ve Asiri Yorum
Het eiland van de vorige dag
Olafur Eliasson
La Edad Media, III. Castillos, mercaderes y poetas
Im Krebsgang voran
Yanlış Okumalar
La memoria vegetal / Plant Memory
Ortacag
L'antichità
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry
Felsefe Tarihi
Çirkinliğin Tarihi
Chŏnnal ŭi sŏm
Fascismo eterno
Die Geschichte der Schönheit.
Inventing the Enemy
Toldot ha-yofi
La búsqueda de la lengua perfecta
Il nome della rosa
Teoria e storia dell'aforisma
Das alte Buch und das Meer
Somon Balıgıyla yolculuk
El Superhombre de Masas
Storia figurata delle invenzioni
Historia krain i miejsc legendarnych
Como se faz uma tese em ciências humanas
Rosens navn
Storia della bruttezza a cura di Umberto Eco
Gesprekken over het einde der tijden
Wat spiegels betreft
Die Suche nach der vollkommenen Sprache
Trzecie zapiski na pudełku od zapałek
Einfuehrung In Die Semiotik
Hoe schrijf ik een scriptie
História da feiura
Apocalittici E Integrati Pack
A rozsa neve
Storia figurata delle invenzioni
Superhombre De Las Masas
Zeichen
El Signo
Zametki na poli︠a︡kh "Imeni rozy"
Ueber Gott Und Die Welt
Joan Wolf
Joan Wolf (born 1951)

  • Hunter College, Mercy University

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The Poisoned Serpent
No dark place
The arrangement
No Dark Place
Guardian
That Summer
Daughter of the Red Deer
His Lordship's Mistress
The Horsemasters
Someday soon
Fool's Masquerade
High meadow
A Double Deception
The reindeer hunters
The Road to Avalon
A Regency Valentine
His Lordship's Desire
Royal bride
The Rebellious Ward
Silverbridge
The Counterfeit Marriage
Golden Girl
The Edge Of Light
The Road To Avalon
The Rebel and the Rose
The Gamble
A Fashionable Affair
The edge of light
Regency Valentine, Volume II
Born Of The Sun
The American duchess
The Gamble
That summer
His Lordship's Mistress / Married by Mistake
Harnessing the Holocaust
This scarlet cord
Beloved Stranger / Summer Storm
The Reindeer Hunters
Beloved Stranger
A Difficult Truce
Daughter of Jerusalem
White horses
The poisoned serpent
No Dark Place
Lord Richard's Daughter
Wild Irish Rose
The guardian
A London season
A reluctant queen
To the Castle
The Deception
His Lordship's Desire
A Kind of Honor
The pretenders
Portrait of a Love
Margarita
Wild Irish rose
A Reluctant Queen
Margarita
Captured hearts
Change of Heart
To the castle
Fool's Masquerade
Portrait of a Love (Rapture Romance, No 89)
Leveled read-aloud plays
Royal Bride
The Scottish Lord
A kind of honor
His Lordship's Desire
The arrangement
The American duchess
Golden Girl
Summer Storm
The Road to Avalon
Edge of Light
The Counterfeit Marriage
The Edge of Light
Master of Grex
Heiress
Born of the Sun
Affair of the Heart
Lord Richard's Daughter
Deception
A reluctant queen
American Earl
Reluctant Earl
La hija del ciervo rojo
This scarlet cord
The arrangement
Gamble
Highland Sunset
Reindeer Hunters
Double Deception
O Senhor de Grex
To the Castle
Fool's Masquerade
Unter dem Rentier-Mond
Portrait
Margarita
Rebellious Ward
Lord Richard's Daughter
Regency Valentine
Guardian
Heredera
O Retrato
Pretenders
Silverbridge
Deception
Kind of Honor
American Duchess
Born of the Sun
Reluctant Queen
White Horses
Beanstalk and Beyond : Developing Critical Thinking Through Fairy Tales
Gamble
Difficult Truce
His Lordship's Mistress
Portrait
Return of the Earl
Double Deception
The Rebel and the rose
Master of Grex
Horsemasters
Le complot amoureux
High Meadow
Jamais je ne t'oublierai
Golden Girl
Pretenders
Dangerous Masquerade
Reluctant Earl
Retrato
American Earl
High Meadow
Highland Sunset
Someday Soon
Margarita
Zhguchee zhelanie
Daughter of the Red Deer
Romance en el castillo
Arise, Reignite the FIRE from Within :
Return of the Earl
Los Domadores De Caballos
Fool's Masquerade
The divided sphere
Annabel £, dorogai Ła
That Summer
Maestro de Grex
Arrangement
Road to Avalon
Arrangement
Guardian
White Horses
To the Castle
Crossword
Fabian
Rebel and the Rose
Black Diamond
His Lordship's Desire
Åke Edwardson
Åke Edwardson (born 1953)

journalist

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Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz (born 1972)

lecturer

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Something wicked
Something Rotten
Refugee
Samurai shortstop
Starfleet Academy - The Assassination Game
Prisoner B-3087
The Brooklyn nine
Allies
Ground Zero
Grenade
Fantasy baseball
Projekt 1065
Code of honor
Projekt 1065
Ban this book
The dragon lantern
The monster war
The League of Seven
Resist
Jean d'Aillon
Jean d'Aillon (born 1948)

civil servant

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Attentat à Aquae Sextiae
Férir ou périr
LA CONJETURA DE FERMAT
L'énigme du clos Mazarin, 4ème édition
Marseille, 1198
LA DEVINERESSE
La Guerre Des Trois Henri Roman
Vol du Sancy
La conjuration des Importants (French Edition)
Le dernier secret de Richelieu (French Edition)
La bête des Saints-Innocents
Le mystere de la chambre bleue
Maison de L'abbaye
Marius Granet et le trésor du Palais Comtal, 2ème édition
Le secret de l'enclos du temple
L'énigme du Clos Mazarin
Le grand incendie
Juliette et les Cézanne
exécuteur de la Haute Justice
Le dernier secret de Richelieu, 2ème édition
Nostradamus et le Dragon de Raphael
L'archipretre et la cite des tours
La guerre des trois Henri
Rome 1202
Le captif au masque de fer
Menaces Sur le Roi
Dernier Secret de Richelieu
Attentat à Aquae Sextiae
Conjuration des Importants
Marius Granet ET Le Tresor Du Palais Comptal (French Edition)
Rouen, 1203
Les collèges fantômes
Mystère de la Chambre Bleue
L'homme aux rubans noirs, ou, Les enquêtes de Louis Fronsac sous la régence d'Anne d'Autriche
Vengeance du Baphomet
Erico Verissimo
Erico Verissimo (1905-1975)

linguist, translator, journalist

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Gato preto em campo de neve
Consider the lilies of the field
Time and the Wind
Mexico
A liberdade de escrever
Música ao longe
Brazilian literature
O tempo e o vento
Incidente em Antares
Brazilian literature
Gato prêto em campo de neve
Um certo Henrique Bertaso
Galeria fosca
A Porto Alegre de Erico
Solo de clarineta
Fantoches
Caminhos cruzados
Histórias infantis de Erico Veríssimo
Time and the wind
O prisioneiro
His excellency, the ambassador
Viagem à aurora do mundo
Ana Terra
Ana Terra
Caminhos cruzados, romance
Fantoches
O resto é silêncio, romance
A vida do elefante Basilio
Incidente em Antares
O urso com música na barriga
Saga, romance
Caminhos cruzados
As mãos de meu filho, contos e artigos
México; história duma viagem
Rio Grande do Sul
O arquipélago
Contos
Rosa Maria no castelo encantado
Gente e bichos
The rest is silence
A vida de Joana d'Arc
A volta do gato preto
Ficção completa
Um lugar ao sol
Viagem à aurora do mundo
A vida de Joana d'Arc
Israel em abril
Night
Um certo capitão Rodrigo
Gato preto em campo de Neve
A ponte
Lembrança de Pôrto Alegre
Solo de clarineta
Gato preto em campo de neve
Time and the wind
Brazilian Literature
Outra vez os 3 porquinhos
As aventuras do avião vermelho
Do diário de Sílvia
Viagem através da literatura americana
Crossroads
Os três porquinhos pobres
A volta do gato prêto
Ficc̜ão completa
Noite
Gato preto em campo de neve
The rest is silence
O senhor embaixador
The Rest Is Silence.:
O ataque
Crossroads
The rest is silence
O resto é silêncio
Crossroads and destinies
Saga
Noite
Israel em abril
Consider the lilies of the valley
O ataque
Time and the wind
Aventuras no mundo da higiene
A Porto Alegre de Érico
A vida de Joana d'Arc
Rio Grande do Sul
Ana terra
O senhor embaixador
O tempo e o vento
Incidente em Antares
As aventuras de Tibicuera
Crossroads ..
O resto é silêncio
As aventuras de Tibicuera
Noite
O urso com música na barriga ... bonecos de João Fahrion
Incidente em Antares
Viagem à Aurora do mundo
Um lugar ao sol
O tempo e o vento
Olhai os lirios do campo
O continente vol. 1
O prisioneiro
Clarissa
Saga
Olhai os lírios do campo
O senhor embaixador
Música ao longe
Ficção completa
Clarissa
Temps et le Vent - Tome 2 (le)
Brazilian literature
Consider the lilies of the field
O continente ; O retrato
El señor embajador
Mexico
Tempo senza volto
As aventuras de Tibicuera, que são também as aventuras do Brasil
Retrato
Doug Dorst
Doug Dorst (born 2000)

researcher, scholar of English, academic

  • Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley

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Nic Pizzolatto
Nic Pizzolatto (born 1975)

film producer, showrunner, television producer, film director

  • Louisiana State University, University of Arkansas

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