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    de Umberto Eco ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Invisible Cities

    de Italo Calvino ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $199 MXN

  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

    A Playful Metafictional Mystery About the Act of Reading

    de Italo Calvino ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

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  • 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. ... Leer más

    $330 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Travels in Hyperreality

    de Umberto Eco ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Foucault's Pendulum

    A Playful Metafictional Mystery About the Act of Reading

    de Umberto Eco ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $250 MXN

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    Language and Lunacy

    de Umberto Eco ...
    Traducido por William Weaver ...
    Series series 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 ... Leer más

    $278 MXN

  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies

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

    de Italo Calvino ...
    Traducido por 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. ... Leer más

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  • 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 ... Leer más

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  • Boredom

    Traducido por Angus Davidson ...
    The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. ... Leer más

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  • Difficult Loves and Other Stories

    de Italo Calvino ...
    Traducido por William Weaver, Ann Goldstein ...
    A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the thirteen tales from his Difficult Loves collection this volume also includes 'Smog', 'A Plunge into Real Estate' and 'The Argentine Ant'.**'The ... Leer más

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  • Under the Jaguar Sun

    Traducido por William Weaver ...
    Series series 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 ... Leer más

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