As the head of the aristocratic family, Don Fabrizio is accustomed to knowing his own place in the world and expects his household to run accordingly. He is aware of the changes which are rapidly making men obsolete but he remains attached to the old ways. But Don Fabrizio will make few accommodations for the modern world.

** NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES** This is the new, revised edition which includes recently discovered new material including letters and diary entries by the author and two additional sections of the novel. 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. 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein 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 INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIAL '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

Details

ISBN13: 9780099512158
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 272
Edition: Revised edition
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.8(L)x1.7(W)193
Weight (gm): 193

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it
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
One of the great lonely books...not a historical novel, but a novel which happens to take place in history
The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry
I was astounded by the power of the writing
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
A literary phenomenon on the grandest scale – a work of genius