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By Alastair McEwen (trans)

Hardcover:

9780847843893 | Italian edition edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 18, 2014), cover price $35.00

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Hardcover:

9780847841219 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 5, 2013, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writerIn La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso―one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology―turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called "the Modern...read more
By Alastair McEwen (trans)

Hardcover:

9780374183349 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 16, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso―one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology―turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called "the Modern.

Paperback:

9780374534073 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 13, 2014, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writerIn La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso―one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology―turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called "the Modern.

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By Alastair McEwen (trans)

Hardcover:

9780857051462 | Gardners Books, June 6, 2013, cover price $24.70

Paperback:

9780857051479 | Gardners Books, June 6, 2013, cover price $21.20

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A highly successful businessman and a Surrealist artist converse in the afterlife

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9781908968043 | Reprint edition (Pushkin Pr Ltd, February 5, 2013), cover price $15.95 | also contains A French Father
9781906548346 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, January 2, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A highly successful businessman and a Surrealist artist converse in the afterlife

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By Alastair McEwen (trans)

Paperback:

9781908968043, titled "The French Father" | Reprint edition (Pushkin Pr Ltd, February 5, 2013), cover price $15.95 | also contains The French Father

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A study of the idea of beauty explores the ever-changing concept of beauty from the ancient Greeks to today.
By Umberto Eco (editor) and Alastair McEwen (trans)

Hardcover:

9780847826469 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 31, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A study of the idea of beauty explores the ever-changing concept of beauty from the ancient Greeks to today.

Paperback:

9780847835300 | Reprint edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, September 21, 2010), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Title: The Infinity of Lists <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: UmbertoEco <>Publisher: RizzoliInternationalPublications
By Alastair McEwen (trans)

Hardcover:

9781906694821 | Gardners Books, November 5, 2009, cover price $57.70 | About this edition: Title: The Infinity of Lists Binding: Hardcover Author: UmbertoEco Publisher: RizzoliInternationalPublications

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Product Description: The first illustrated book by one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, History of Beauty presents an intriguing journey into the wonderful realm of aesthetics, exploring the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from ancient Greece to today with abundant examples...read more
By Umberto Eco (editor) and Alastair McEwen (trans)

Hardcover:

9780847831760 | Slp edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, December 9, 2008), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The first illustrated book by one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, History of Beauty presents an intriguing journey into the wonderful realm of aesthetics, exploring the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from ancient Greece to today with abundant examples.

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In a timely compilation of essays, the semiotics professor and author of The Name of the Rose looks at the modern world and what brought us here, covering such topics as racism, the European Union, the Middle East, rhetoric, technology, September 11, TV ads, Harry Potter, intelligent design, fundamentalism, anti-Semitism, and other hot-button topics.

Hardcover:

9780151013517 | Houghton Mifflin, November 12, 2007, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In a timely compilation of essays, the semiotics professor and author of The Name of the Rose looks at the modern world and what brought us here, covering such topics as racism, the European Union, the Middle East, rhetoric, technology, September 11, TV ads, Harry Potter, intelligent design, fundamentalism, anti-Semitism, and other hot-button topics.

Paperback:

9780156034210 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 22, 2008), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: From the award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of The Almond Picker comes this sumptuous family saga set in nineteenth-century Sicily. Costanza Safamita is the beloved daughter of the Baron Domenico Safamita: Red-haired, gawky, and shy, she is considered an outsider by many on her family's estate...read more

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9780374182458 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When Constanza Safamita inherits her father's fortune, to the rest of the family's astonishment, she must deal with the pressures of marriage and being a landowner while learning to navigate Sicilian high society as the monarchy collapses.

Paperback:

9780312427474 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, June 24, 2008), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: From the award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of The Almond Picker comes this sumptuous family saga set in nineteenth-century Sicily.

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Paperback:

9780802096142 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 5, 2008, cover price $20.95

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A collection of essays by one of the intellectuals which explains the steps backwards that have been taken since the end of the last millennium. After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. It proposes not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards.
By Alastair McEwen (trans)

Hardcover:

9781846550355 | Vintage Uk, September 27, 2007, cover price $29.60 | About this edition: A collection of essays by one of the intellectuals which explains the steps backwards that have been taken since the end of the last millennium.

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An epistolary tale told through a series of seventeen letters by men describes their affairs and desperate entreaties for replies that may never come, in a work that culminates in a single, eighteenth letter by a distant, implacable woman who sympathetically answers their pleas. Original.

Paperback:

9780811215466 | Italian edition edition (New Directions, May 31, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An epistolary tale told through a series of seventeen letters by men describes their affairs and desperate entreaties for replies that may never come, in a work that culminates in a single, eighteenth letter by a distant, implacable woman who sympathetically answers their pleas.

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A debut novel explores issues of identity in modern Sicily, presenting the complicated life of Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, a woman born into poverty in Sicily who becomes the invaluable servant of a wealthy family. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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9780312425067 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, February 21, 2006), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A debut novel explores issues of identity in modern Sicily, presenting the complicated life of Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, a woman born into poverty in Sicily who becomes the invaluable servant of a wealthy family.

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A debut novel explores issues of identity in modern Sicily, presenting the complicated life of Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, a woman born into poverty in Sicily who becomes the invaluable servant of a wealthy family.

Hardcover:

9780374182342 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A novel exploring issues of identity in modern Sicily presents the complicated life of Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, a woman born into poverty in Sicily who becomes the invaluable servant of a wealthy family.

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Product Description: In a white city on the African shore of the Mediterranean, the Islamic fundamentalists are gaining control of the streets and the European community of artists and decadent aristocrats take refuge in memories and innumerable barely-recognised vices...read more

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9781901285475 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, April 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a white city on the African shore of the Mediterranean, the Islamic fundamentalists are gaining control of the streets and the European community of artists and decadent aristocrats take refuge in memories and innumerable barely-recognised vices.

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In this award-winning Italian novel, an unusual stranger convinces Gianni Orzan that his vision of his deceased father as a distant, cruel Fascist is in fact untrue and that instead his father had been a double agent for the KGB.

Hardcover:

9780066212456 | Ecco Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In this award-winning Italian novel, an unusual stranger convinces Gianni Orzan that his vision of his deceased father as a distant, cruel Fascist is in fact untrue and that instead his father had been a double agent for the KGB.

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By Alastair McEwen (trans)

Miscellaneous:

9780547564050 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 2002, cover price $12.95

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A group of people all looking for a missing piece of themselves converges at a remote seaside inn, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth of their entwined situations becomes clear. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780375404238 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A group of people all looking for a missing piece of themselves converges at a remote seaside inn, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth of their entwined situations becomes clear

Paperback:

9780375703959 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A group of people all looking for a missing piece of themselves converges at a remote seaside inn, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth of their entwined situations becomes clear.

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