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Inventing the Enemy: Essays
by Eco, Umberto
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0547640978
- ISBN 13
- 9780547640976
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($25.00 price intact). Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in gold with yellow endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. 222 pages. ISBN: 9780547640976. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Synopsis
“Underscores the writer’s profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco’s pleasure in such explorations is obvious and contagious.” — Booklist Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Eco has written and lectured over the past ten years: from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel The Prague Cemetery — every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn’t have one, must invent it — to a discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels (and in the process he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world); from indignant reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, to an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship and violence and WikiLeaks. These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession by one of the world’s most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists. “True wit and wisdom coexist with fierce scholarship inside Umberto Eco, a writer who actually knows a thing or two about being truly human.” — Buffalo News "Thought provoking . . . nuanced . . . the collection amply shows off Eco's sophisticated, agile mind." — Publishers Weekly
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 105242
- Title
- Inventing the Enemy: Essays
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0547640978
- ISBN 13
- 9780547640976
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston New York
- Date Published
- 2012
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