THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE Translated from the Italian by William Weaver

Eco, Umberto

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ISBN 10: 0436202700 ISBN 13: 9780436202704

Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1995

Language: English

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SIGNED by the author on the title page, small quarto, navy blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with colorful detail of a ship from a ceiling fresco, bright blue endpapers, 515 pages. Weight; 2 lbs. Umberto Eco. OMRI (1932 - 2016) was a brilliant Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and mindbending novelist. SIGNED & SUPERB like NEW COPY! Flawless. No previous owner or remainder marks.

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THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE Translated from the Italian by William Weaver

Publisher

Secker & Warburg, London

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0436202700

ISBN 13

9780436202704

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Cloth

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First British Edition.

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Like New

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In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked—on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he looks back on various episodes from his life: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War in which he lost his father and his illusions; and the lessons given him on Reasons of State, fencing, the writing of love letters, and blasphemy.

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Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 1994, 0-15-100151-0
Published in paperback by Penguin, 1996, 0140259198

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