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. 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 splendor 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 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein
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The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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We are in Sicily, at the time of the Bourbon decline: the scene is a family of the highest aristocracy of the island, caught in the revealing moment of the transition of the regime, while the new times are already pressing (from the year of Garibaldi's Thousand's enterprise, the story extends to the early twentieth century). Centered almost entirely around a single character, Prince Fabrizio Salina, the novel, both lyrical and critical, gives very little to the plot and the romanticism so dear to nineteenth-century narrative. The image of Sicily that it offers us instead is a lively image, animated by a lively and very modern spirit, widely aware of contemporary historical and political problems.
- Publisher : Feltrinelli;
- Language : Italian / English
- Joseph Tomasi of Lampedusa
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