Forgot your password?  

Books Like The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | Suggesting Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 33 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Name of the Rose.
This section contains 146 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Purchase our The Name of the Rose Study Guide

The Name of the Rose What Do I Read Next?

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978), by Barbara Tuchman, is a fascinating and readable study of Europe in the 1300s.

In 1993, noted historian of philosophy Frederick C. Copleston published the second volume of his History of Philosophy, which covers the philosophy of the Middle Ages, including discussions of both Roger Bacon and William of Ockham.

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories (1986) provides an excellent introduction into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary sleuth.

Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, translated into English by William Weaver in 1989, is another philosophical novel, investigating the secrets of the Knights Templar.

Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (1962), edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, contains some of Borges's most influential stories, including "Death and the Compass," "The Garden of Forking Paths," "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius."

...
(read more)
This section contains 146 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Purchase our The Name of the Rose Study Guide
Copyrights
The Name of the Rose from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
Follow Us on Facebook
Homework Help