The Leopard A Novel

Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

eBook - 2013

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES • Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of human frailty imbue The Leopard with its particular melancholy beauty and power, and place it among the greatest historical novels of our time. Although Giuseppe di Lampedusa had long had the book in mind, he began writing it only in his late fifties; he died at age sixty, soon after the manuscript was rejected as unpublishable. In his introduction, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Lampedusa's nephew, gives us a detailed history ...of the initial publication and the various editions that followed. And he includes passages Lampedusa wrote for the book that were omitted by the original Italian editors. Here, finally, is the definitive...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9780307833990
Release Date10/2/2013
Kindle Book
ASINB00F8F0KAM
Release Date10/2/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307833990
Release Date10/2/2013