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Foucault's pendulum

by Umberto Eco, William Weaver

Structured around the ten Sephirot of the Kabbalah, this novel delves into conspiracy theories, alchemy, and esoteric history as its characters analyse secret societies up to the early 1980s.

Accession 10775 ISBN 0151327653 Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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