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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
First edition
AuthorUmberto Eco
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLinguistics
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication date
1994
Pages153 pp.
ISBN0-674-81050-3
OCLC29184587
Dewey Decimal
808.3 20
LC ClassPN3355 .E28 1994

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a non-fiction book by Umberto Eco. Originally delivered at Harvard for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1992 and 1993, the six lectures were published in the fall of 1994.

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