THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE

Umberto Eco

ISBN 10: 0151001510 / ISBN 13: 9780151001514

Edité par Harcourt Brace & Company, US, 1995

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This edition has been specially bound and is limited to 250 copies of which this is numbered 156. Signed by the author at edition description. Denim blue cloth over boards with gold titling and publisher's name to spine and debossed signature to front board. Housed in publisher's matching denim blue cloth covered slipcase. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright with bumping to top corner of headcap and tail of spine, and light sunning to spine. Slipcase is in very good condition with light rubbing to edges and corners.

N° de réf. du vendeur 66160

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE
• Éditeur: Harcourt Brace & Company, US
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0151001510
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780151001514
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First US Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good +
• État de la jaquette: Very Good +
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Synopsis

In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessel’s mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his era’s obsession with science and navigation. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Revue de presse

"No comparable book has ever existed... The exuberance of the narrative and sheer sumptuousness of the language possess a precision for which everything in Eco's earlier writing had prepared us, but equally a panache for which nothing had" (Sunday Times)

"Vintage Eco...full of verbal conjuring: both an enjoyable fable and a skillful parade of recent literary theory and history of science" (The Times)

"A great feast of words" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Every age gets the classics it deserves. I hope we deserve The Island of the Day Before...This novel belings in the great tradition of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Johnson's Rasselas and Voltaire's Candide. We are left energized, exhilarated by the sheer sensory excitement of the music's telling." (New York Times Book Review)