The Last Leopard
By (Author) David Gilmour
Eland Publishing Ltd
Eland Publishing Ltd
2nd July 2008
27th April 2007
New edition
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Biography: writers
853.914
Paperback
334
Width 135mm, Height 215mm
This is the story behind one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, both in terms of sales, literary influence and worldwide translations. Every reader who has been possessed by The Leopard, the unique work of Giuseppe Lampedusa, should progress to this book. This is a classic biography, by a writer of a writer, where princely decadence and aristocratic disdain masked a razor sharp mind, made doubly intriguing in that Lampedusa never lived to see the tearaway success of his masterly creation.