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Foucault's Pendulum
By Umberto Eco
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Description
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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
640
Release Date:
2007-02-05
Publication Date:
2007-03-31
Publisher:
HARVEST BOOKS
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
015603297X
ISBN13:
9780156032971
Weight:
512 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
43 cm
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