The Leopard

Discover the breath-taking historical classic

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa author Archibald Colquhoun translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:6th Sep '07

£9.99

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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.

As the head of the aristocratic family, Don Fabrizio is accustomed to knowing his own place in the world and expects his household to run accordingly. He is aware of the changes which are rapidly making men obsolete but he remains attached to the old ways. But Don Fabrizio will make few accommodations for the modern world.

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
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
One of the great lonely books...not a historical novel, but a novel which happens to take place in history
The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry

ISBN: 9780099512158

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 191g

272 pages

Revised edition