The Leopard: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

 
9781857150230: The Leopard: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics)

Synopsis

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.

W. Somerset Maugham is the Introducer to this beautiful Everyman's Library edition.

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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.

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