Leopard A Novel

Name: Leopard A Novel
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ISBN: 9780375714795

ISBN-10: 0375714790

ISBN-13: 9780375714795

Edition: N/A

Authors: Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, Archibald Colquhoun, Guido Waldman, Gioachino Lanza Tomasi

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.96" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.056