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TITLE: |
The island of the day before : a novel / by Umberto Eco; translated from the Italian by William Weaver. |
UNIFORM TITLE: |
Isola del giorno prima. English |
AUTHOR: |
Eco, Umberto. |
PUBLISHED: |
Orlando, FL : Harcourt Brace & Company, c1995. |
DESCRIPTION: |
515 p. ; 24 cm. |
EDITION: |
1st ed. |
NOTES: |
Daphne. --An account of events in the Monferrato. --The Seraglio of wonders. --Fortification Display' d. --The labyrinth of the world. --The great art of light and shadow. --Pavane lachryme. --The curious learning of wits of the day. --The Aristotelian telescope. --Geography and hydro-graphy reformed. --The art of prudence. --The passion of the soul. --The map of tenderness. --A treatise on the science of arms. --Horologium oscillatorium. --Discourse on the powder of sympathy. --Longitudinum optata scientia. --Unheard-of curiousities. --A new voyage around the world. --Wit and the art of ingenuity. --Telluris theoria sacra. --The orange dove. --Divers and artificious machines. --Dialogues of the maximum systems. --Technica curiosa. --Delights for the ingenious: a collection of emblems. --The secrets of the flux and reflux of the sea. --Of the origin of novels. --The soul of Ferrante. --Anatomy of erotic melancholy. --A breviary for politicals. --A garden of delights. --Mundus subterraneous. --Monologue on the plurality of worlds. --Joyful newest out of the newfound world. --The rule and exercises of holy dying. --Paradoxical exercises regarding the thinking of stones. --An enquiry into the nature and place of hell. --Itinerarium extaticum coeleste. --Colophon. |
NOTES: |
Donated by Mr. Danny Wyatt (7/2/97) |
SUBJECT: |
Short stories. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Weaver, Williams, 1923- |
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