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The Leopard
  • ISBN: 9780099512158
  • Dimensions: 197 x 130 mm
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Binding: Paperback

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s 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 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.

‘One of the great lonely books . . . not a historical novel, but a novel which happens to take place in history.’ E. M. Forster

‘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



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I first read Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard while I was in Palermo in 1981, at the age of 18. It was one of those defining reading experiences which are not always easy to explain but...

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