The Island of the Day Before- SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED FIRST EDITION

Eco, Umberto

ISBN 10: 0436202700 / ISBN 13: 9780436202704

Published by Secker, 1995

About this Item

Fine first printing in fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated by the author to the title page: Umberto Eco 2.10.95. A little dust accumulation to the top edge of the text block. With original purchase invoice from Waterstone's, Bath who sold the copy as a signed, publication dated book. Seller Inventory # 003115

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Island of the Day Before- SIGNED & ...

Publisher: Secker

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

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.

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)