Foucault's Pendulum (First Edition)

Umberto Eco (author); William Weaver (translator)

ISBN 10: 0151327653 / ISBN 13: 9780151327652

Published by Helen and Kurt Wolff (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), San Diego, 1989

About this Item

Harcourt, 1989, New York. First Edition. First printing of the first trade edition, with full letter line (ABCDE) (there was also a signed edition by Franklin Library). A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($22.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Fiction, novel, ECO. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1989

Bibliographic Details

Title: Foucault's Pendulum (First Edition)

Publisher: Helen and Kurt Wolff (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), San Diego

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

International bestselling and award-winning author Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is "an intellectual adventure story, as sensational, thrilling, and packed with arcana as Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Count of Monte Cristo" (The Washington Post Book World).Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled — a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment. "An encyclopedic detective story...An intellectual triumph"—Anthony Burgess"Endlessly diverting . . . Even more intricate and absorbing than his international bestseller The Name of the Rose."—Time

About the Author:

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy’s highest literary award, the Premio Strega; was named a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French government; and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.