Foucault's Pendulum Summary
Umberto Eco

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Foucault's Pendulum Summary

Foucault's Pendulum is a novel that follows the adventures of three book editors in Milan as they attempt to unravel the great mystery of the Knights Templar. They eventually get sucked into an underground occult world of secrets and magic where the Plan they have developed becomes more powerful than they could have ever imagined.

The novel begins with the main character and narrator, Casaubon, hiding in the Conservatoire des Arts...

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