The Leopard: Discover the breath-taking historical classic

The Leopard: Discover the breath-taking historical classic

by Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Guido Waldman (Translator), Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi (Foreword), Guido Waldman (Translator), Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Author), Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi (Foreword)

Synopsis

INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIAL In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published:

ISBN 10: 0099512157
ISBN 13: 9780099512158
Book Overview: This is the new, revised edition which includes recently discovered new material including letters and diary entries by the author and two additional sections of the novel.

Media Reviews
There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it -- Rick Stein
Every once in a while, like certain golden moments of happiness, infinitely memorable, one stumbles on a book or a writer, and the impact is like an indelible mark. Lampedusa's The Leopard, his only novel, and a masterpiece, is such a work * Independent *
Perhaps the greatest novel of the century -- L.P. Hartley
One of the great lonely books...not a historical novel, but a novel which happens to take place in history -- E.M. Forster
The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry -- Peter Ackroyd
Author Bio
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was a Sicilian nobleman, Duke of Parma and Prince of Lampedusa. He was born in Palermo in 1896 and died in Rome in 1957. He lived the life of a literary dilettante, was familiar with the great literatures of the world, and was widely travelled. Much of Lampedusa's other work is collected in The Siren and Other Writings (Harvill).