The Leopard: Discover the breath-taking historical classic
Sep 2010 · Random House
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The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein
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.
'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
INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIAL
'Perhaps the greatest novel of the century' L.P. Hartley
'The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry' Peter Ackroyd
'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein
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.
'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
INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIAL
'Perhaps the greatest novel of the century' L.P. Hartley
'The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry' Peter Ackroyd
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Alex Went
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August 7, 2018
The noble house of Salina is presided over by the larger-than-life Don Fabrizio, the very incarnation of his family's ancient coat of arms: the Leopard. Patrician, paterfamilias, astronomer, bon viveur, he is a renaissance man out of his time. Disappointed in his own children, he lavishes affection instead on his nephew Tancredi, whose life and love he hopes to influence. Tancredi, alas, is possessed by a romantic spirit of independence that sees him firstly join the ranks of Garibaldi (whose 1860 invasion of Sicily is counterintuitively supported by Fabrizio), and then fall hopelessly into the arms of Angelica, the beautiful daughter of the somewhat provincial local mayor. With the destiny of his own family and lineage slipping out of his control, Don Fabrizio consoles himself with his telescope and his ruminations on Sicily, death, and love.
Andy OK
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November 3, 2020
Wonderful novel about change and nostalgia set in Sicily. I have read it more than once and will no doubt come back to it again.
About the author
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).
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