Umberto Eco has written at least 263 books. Their most popular book is The Name of the Rose with 872 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Classics, Fiction, and History.
mysterious, Adventurous, and dark are their most common moods.
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.
Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
1980 • 872 Readers • 556 pages • 4
1988 • 300 Readers • 623 pages • 3.9
2000 • 79 Readers • 527 pages • 3.7
2010 • 62 Readers • 576 pages • 3.7
1994 • 45 Readers • 515 pages • 3.3
2004 • 31 Readers • 432 pages • 3.7
2004 • 28 Readers • 480 pages • 2.8
2007 • 23 Readers • 456 pages • 4
1977 • 19 Readers • 229 pages • 3.3
1995 • 17 Readers • 64 pages • 4.9
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1992 • 17 Readers • 248 pages • 4
2015 • 16 Readers • 191 pages • 3.1
1995 • 13 Readers • 51 pages • 3.8
1999 • 13 Readers • 355 pages • 3
2002 • 11 Readers • 352 pages • 3
1973 • 10 Readers • 324 pages • 3.3
2006 • 9 Readers • 148 pages • 3.7
9 Readers • 3.4
1998 • 8 Readers • 144 pages • 3
1994 • 7 Readers • 515 pages • 3.5
1979 • 7 Readers • 354 pages • 4
1997 • 7 Readers • 3.3
1947 • 7 Readers • 237 pages • 4.3
1988 • 6 Readers • 681 pages • 5
1980 • 6 Readers • 782 pages • 4.3
1993 • 6 Readers • 397 pages • 4
2009 • 6 Readers • 408 pages
1980 • 6 Readers • 478 pages • 4.8
1962 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 4
1997 • 5 Readers • 480 pages
2013 • 5 Readers • 477 pages • 2.5
1987 • 4 Readers • 144 pages
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1994 • 4 Readers • 160 pages • 5
1983 • 4 Readers • 104 pages • 3.7
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1992 • 4 Readers • 279 pages • 5
4 Readers • 2
2017 • 4 Readers • 432 pages
2010 • 4 Readers • 523 pages • 4.5
2003 • 4 Readers • 112 pages • 4
2016 • 4 Readers • 319 pages • 4
2005 • 4 Readers • 271 pages • 3