The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco, Rita Grasso, William Weaver
Paperback
(Harvest, March 15, 1994)
An English translation of Eco's mystery novel placed in medieval Italy during the year 1327. The novel is 502 pages in length and Eco has added a 34 page postscript in response to receiving numerous letters from readers requesting further information regarding the title and Latin hexameter from which it was derived, an excerpt from "De contempu mundi" by Bernard of Morley. -description provided by booklars