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The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript (Paperback)
by Umberto Eco (Author), William Weaver (Translator) "ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en francais..." (more)
Key Phrases: heptagonal room, thronos viginti quatuor, imperial theologians, Brother William, Fra Dolcino, Saint Francis (more...)
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From Publishers Weekly
This edition includes Eco's illuminating commentary, Postscript to the Name of the Rose.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Eco's popular 1983 mystery here is bound with his 1985 Postscript to "The Name of the Rose," in which he describes the creation of the book and offers his theories of modern literature. This is the first paperback pairing of the two works.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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First Sentence:
ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en francais d'apres l'edition de Dom J. Mabillon (Aux Presses de l'Abbaye de la Source, Paris, 1842). Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heptagonal room, thronos viginti quatuor, imperial theologians, treasure crypt, abbatial church, master glazier, blind room, chapter hall, dead monks, east tower
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brother William, Fra Dolcino, Saint Francis, Bernard Gui, Pseudo Apostles, Michael of Cesena, Middle Ages, King of France, Brother Michael, Seated One, Evil One, Cardinal Bertrand, Pacificus of Tivoli, Pope John, Paul of Rimini, Roger Bacon, Aymaro of Alessandria, Friars Minor, Robert of Bobbio, Angelic Pope, Bald Mountain, Bishop of Kaffa, Bishop of Vercelli, Gherardo Segarelli, Peter of Sant'Albano
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