Island of the Day Before (Limited Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151001960 ISBN 13: 9780151001965

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1995

Synopsis

Set in the 17th century, Eco's third novel tells the story of Roberto, a young nobleman. He survives war, the Bastille and shipwreck, and meets a variety of fantastical people, animals and machines as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian.

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

‘Every age gets the classics it deserves. I hope we deserve The Island of the Day Before’ – New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0151001960
• ISBN 13: 9780151001965
• Binding: Hardcover