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Published: 29th November 1991
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The Leopard
By (Author) Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Everyman
Everyman's Library
29th November 1991
26th September 1991
United Kingdom
Hardback
304
Width 134mm, Height 212mm, Spine 19mm
377g
A bitter-sweet tale of quiet lives in the small and apparently timeless world of mid-19th century Sicilian nobility. Through the eyes of his princely protagonist, the author chronicles the details of an aristocratic, pastoral society, torn apart by revolution, death and decay.
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.