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The Leopard
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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS - Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic. 'Historical fiction at its best' – The Week It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily. Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still...
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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS - Bound to be beautiful
A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic.
'Historical fiction at its best' – The Week
It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily.
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.
But then comes Garibaldi's landing on the Sicilian coast.
As Garibaldi's forces press inland, the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them.
'Every once in a while...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
'The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry' – Peter Ackroyd
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781784879648
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 April 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
- Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 205.0mm
Weight: 319g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was a Sicilian nobleman, Duke of Parma and Prince of Lampedusa. He was born in Palermo in 1896 and died in Rome in 1957. He lived the life of a literary dilettante, was familiar with the great literatures of the world, and was widely travelled. Much of Lampedusa's other work is collected in The Siren and Other Writings.
Also by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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