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The Leopard: Limited Centenary edition

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

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Published by Harvill Secker, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

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EAN: 9781846553912
Published: 6 May 2010

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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.

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What the critics say

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
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One of the great lonely books...not a historical novel, but a novel which happens to take place in history
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The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry
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I was astounded by the power of the writing
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A great book
- Observer

Few novels in the last ten years have given me so much enjoyment
- Sunday Times

A novel of exceptional stature. One may claim for it classic status
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About the Author

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was born on 23rd December 1896. He was the last in a line of minor princes in Sicily. He inherited the titles of the Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa. He was brought up in Palermo but moved to Rome in 1915 where he was drafted into the army and fought at the Battle of Caporetto. He was captured and held in a Hungarian Prisoner of War Camp from which he later escaped. In 1932 he married Alexandra Wolff Stomersee. He died on 3rd July 1957. The Leopard was published posthumously in 1958 and won the Premio Strega in 1959.