The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco,William Weaver

Fiction

the year is 1327. benedictines in a wealthy italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and brother william of baskerville arrives to investigate. when his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, brother william turns detective. his tools are the logic of aristotle, the theology of aquinas, the empirical insights of roger bacon—all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor...