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Baudolino

Auteur(s): Umberto Eco, William Weaver - Translator - translator
Narrateur(s): George Guidall
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The author of the international sensation The Name of the Rose returns to the Middle Ages in this beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention.

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.

Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts—a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. When still a boy, he meets a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind.

The commander—who proves to be Emperor Frederick Barbarossa—adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends.

Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East—a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens.

With dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, extraordinary feeling, and vicarious reflections on our postmodern age, this is Eco the storyteller at his brilliant best.

“Baudolino, with its richly variegated haul of medieval treasures, remains compulsively readable.”—The New York Times Book Review(P)2002 Recorded Books Fantastique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature et fiction Moyen Âge Redevances
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This is a rare wonderful combination of a greatly respected author, a greatly researched and wonderfully written text and a real, professional narrator. The narrator, who makes the book alive. He tells the captivating story. Mr.Guidall is one of the few real narrators I have found so far on the audible. The other ones are: Sean Barrett, Nicholas Rowe, Neville James. Thank you gentlemen!

Terrific Story and Phenomenal Narration

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the audio at is of good quality and the story itself is very interesting especially if you are interested in the time period.

awesome book if you are interested in history

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