Name: The Leopard
ISBN: 9780307833990

Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.

A Novel

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Leopard is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses Mondadori and Einaudi, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature. In 1959, it won Italy's highest award for fiction, the Strega Prize.

I need to read it once more , and slow as hell. When I actually focused, I was swept off my feet. 

Adam Scharf

Based on the life of the author's great grandfather in the last half of the 19th century, the story trace the effect upon him of the crumbling of his feudal domain after the overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples.

Jeremy Boyd

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Veel (mooie) woorden voor een verhaal dat me uiteindelijk weinig kon schelen.

Alawander Bouston 

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Rikke Lohse

Edward

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.

Pate Hubbard

Alexander Lobov

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For better readers, this is the story of the decline of a wealthy Italian family in the time of Garibaldi.

The Leopard A Novel

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