Overview of The Book of Legendary Lands (Old Edition) Book

Umberto Eco explores the most distant realms of our imagination. From homer's poems to contemporary science fiction, literature through the ages has continuously invented imaginary and legendary lands, projecting there all those wishes, dreams, utopias and nightmares that are too intrusive and challenging for our limited daily reality. Umberto Eco leads us on an illustrated journey through these distant, unknown lands, introducing us to their inhabitants, their heroes and villains, the passions and preoccupations that shaped them, always mindful of the continued importance of myth and legend to modern life and consciousness. Placing ancient and medieval texts beside contemporary stories, films beside poems, comics beside novels, it is a journey that is both erudite and enjoyable and one that only Eco could have created. "A characteristic product of this extraordinary writer and polymath: Learned, sparkling, insightful, provocative, packed full of intriguing and arcane information" - Mary beard, Guardian.

• Book Type :

Humanities

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

085705287X

• The Book of Legendary Lands (Old Edition) Published On :

Nov 2013

• Resource:

Textbooks, Humanities Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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