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The Name of the Rose audiobook

  • By: Umberto Eco
  • Narrator: Sean Barrett
  • Length: 21 hours 5 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: December 10, 2013
  • Language: English
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The Name of the Rose Audiobook Summary

The international bestseller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy.

The Name of the Rose

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror.

Brother William turns detective, and a uniquely deft one at that. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon–all sharpened to a glistening edge by his wry humor and ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where “the most interesting things happen at night.”

As Brother William goes about unraveling the mystery of what happens at the abbey by day and by night, listeners step into a brilliant re-creation of the fourteenth century, with its dark superstitions and wild prejudices, its hidden passions and sordid intrigues. Virtuoso storyteller Umberto Eco conjures up a gloriously rich portrait of this world with such grace, ease, wit and love that you will become utterly intoxicated with the place and time, in The Name of the Rose.

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The Name of the Rose Audiobook Narrator

Sean Barrett is the narrator of The Name of the Rose audiobook that was written by Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria, Italy. He is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, a philosopher, historian, literary critic and aesthetician. He is the author of the international bestselling novels The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before, as well as three collections of popular essays, Travels in Hyperreality, Misreadings and How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays. Mr. Eco lives in Milan.

About the Author(s) of The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco is the author of The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose Full Details

Narrator Sean Barrett
Length 21 hours 5 minutes
Author Umberto Eco
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date December 10, 2013
ISBN 9781427243997

Additional info

The publisher of the The Name of the Rose is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427243997.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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