Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard
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Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun
272pp
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.
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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.
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
‘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
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957) was an Italian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa.He is best known for his only novel, The Leopard (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento. A collection of stories and memoir,m The Siren and Selected Writings, appeared in 1995.
Archibald Colquhoun (1912–1964) was a leading translator of modern Italian literature into English. He headed an Oxford University Press initiative to pubLish Italian literary classics in translation and was one of the first translators to introduce Italo Calvino to English-language readers.
