Skip to main content

Indkøbskurv

Du får VIP-behandling!

Vare(r) ikke tilgængelig til køb
Gennemgå din indkøbskurv. Du kan fjerne de(n) tilgængelige vare(r) nu, ellers fjerner vi det automatisk ved kassen.
varervare
varervare

Anbefalet til dig

Loading...


Bøger fortalt af William Weaver

1 - 12 af 21 resultater
Skip side bar filters
  • The Name of the Rose

    af Umberto Eco ...
    Oversat af William Weaver, Richard Dixon ...
    Now available in a deluxe edition featuring never-before-seen illustrations by the author: the beloved internationally bestselling historical mystery about a brilliant monk called upon to solve a series of baffling murders in a fourteenth-century Italian abbey“Explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively. Hold on till the end.” —New York Times“Whether you're into ... Læs mere

    94,25 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Love & Profanity

    A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life

    Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. Discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. Witness transformative moments arising from the mundane. Behold the young adult in full splendor and horror, bursting with love and profanity. ... Læs mere

    178,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

    A Playful Metafictional Mystery About the Act of Reading

    af Italo Calvino ...
    Oversat af William Weaver ...
    A novel built from beginnings...You buy a book called If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller and sit down to read. The story stops mid-sentence. When you find another copy, it contains a different opening. Each attempt to continue leads to a new narrative that breaks off just as it gathers momentum.As the Reader, you set out to track down the missing text. Along the way you encounter Ludmilla, another ... Læs mere

    85,75 kr.

  • Foucault's Pendulum

    A Playful Metafictional Mystery About the Act of Reading

    af Umberto Eco ...
    Oversat af William Weaver ...
    Three editors invent a conspiracy. The world decides it is real.Casaubon, Belbo and Diotallevi work in a Milan publishing house surrounded by manuscripts on the occult and the Knights Templar. Amused by the pattern-seeking of amateur historians and secret-society enthusiasts, they decide to construct their own grand theory.What begins as a game becomes ‘The Plan’, an elaborate network of invented ... Læs mere

    111,50 kr.

  • Serendipities

    Language and Lunacy

    af Umberto Eco ...
    Oversat af William Weaver ...
    Serier serie Italian Academy Lectures
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much ... Læs mere

    126,86 kr.

  • Travels in Hyperreality

    af Umberto Eco ...
    Oversat af William Weaver ...
    A "scintillating collection" of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault's Pendulum (Los Angeles Times).Collected here are some of Umberto Eco's finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: "In these pages, I try to ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies

    A strange, playful tale about storytelling from the author of If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

    af Italo Calvino ...
    Oversat af William Weaver ...
    A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness. ... Læs mere

    111,50 kr.

  • The Complete Cosmicomics

    Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
    Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all there, - dld Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space ... Læs mere

    85,75 kr.

  • Last Comes the Raven

    These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving.Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden, a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In every story he ... Læs mere

    85,75 kr.

  • Under the Jaguar Sun

    Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
    A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search ... Læs mere

    85,75 kr.

  • Invisible Cities

    af Italo Calvino ...
    Oversat af William Weaver ...
    Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name...In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a ... Læs mere

    94,33 kr.

  • Matrix Analysis Framed Structures

    Matrix analysis of structures is a vital subject to every structural analyst, whether working in aero-astro, civil, or mechanical engineering. It provides a comprehensive approach to the analysis of a wide variety of structural types, and therefore offers a major advantage over traditional metho~ which often differ for each type of structure. The matrix approach also provides an efficient means of ... Læs mere

    1.307,45 kr.