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The Island of the Day Before

By William Weaver, Umberto Eco

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| Audio Cassette | 9781559273602

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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 BookContinue

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The Island of the Day Before-- book review

The Island of the Day Before Umberto Eco Harvest Paperback 528 pages June 2006 Eco is often compared to literary greats such as Joyce, Voltaire and Swift in that he shares in the fabulist tradition. That should be a clue that The Island of the Day Be ... (read full critics)

curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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Umberto Eco began formulating his theories of the ‘open’ and the ‘closed’ text in the late Fifties, and then more than twenty years later, with the publication of The Name of the Rose, he appeared to achieve the impossible, by proving that these two ... (read full critics)

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I have read many Umberto Eco works - as well as some of his non-fiction, but this book affected me particulalrly due to the location, as my father was on Christmas Island (supposedly discovered Christmas day but of course they hadn't realised they'd crossed the date line) during the British hydrogen ... (continue)

I have read many Umberto Eco works - as well as some of his non-fiction, but this book affected me particulalrly due to the location, as my father was on Christmas Island (supposedly discovered Christmas day but of course they hadn't realised they'd crossed the date line) during the British hydrogen bomb tests ..

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Wallacekevin said on Dec 4, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Unfortunately, I found this book completely unreadable and abandoned it after a valiant attempt at getting through the first 50 pages (I have a personal rule that any book should be given 50 pages of benefit-of-the-doubt).
Interestingly, I have met several people who have attempted to read the ... (continue)

Unfortunately, I found this book completely unreadable and abandoned it after a valiant attempt at getting through the first 50 pages (I have a personal rule that any book should be given 50 pages of benefit-of-the-doubt).
Interestingly, I have met several people who have attempted to read the book (usually because they enjoyed The Name of the Rose), but none of them were able to finish this one.

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G-J said on Feb 29, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback