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Original Title:	Il Gattopardo
ISBN:	0679731210 (ISBN13: 9780679731214)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Fabrizio Corbera, Principe di Salina, Tancredi Falconeri, Angelica Sedàra, Francesco Paolo Corbera, Concetta Corbera
Setting:	Sicily,1865(Italy)
Literary Awards:	Premio Strega for جائزة لوستريغا (1959)

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Paperback | Pages: 319 pages

Rating: 4 | 21470 Users | 1639 Reviews

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Title	:	The Leopard
Author	:	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 319 pages
Published	:	November 6th 2007 by Pantheon (first published October 25th 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. European Literature. Italian Literature

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The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this powerful figure swirls a glittering array of characters: a Bourbon king, liberals and pseudo liberals, peasants and millionaires.

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Last summer I actually got some good reading done. I had been plagued with seeing The Leopard by Lampedusa in various bookstores in Italy, but did not really know what it was about aside from the reunification of Italy in the late 19th C. I read Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb and in the 4th chapter of that book, he talked about the book and I was hooked. I scoured about 4 bookstores in Sicily before finally finding a translation into French and I dove in headfirst. What an incredible read! I

Unlike in many other novels of historical fiction, Tomasi makes no secret of the fact that he is writing from the vantage of hindsight. And though they were few, I enjoyed his narratorial asides, some ironic, some sobering. But what I loved more than anything else is the elegant writing; you are in a dream as the sentences flow by. Two sections stand out as especially beautiful: the young couple playing amongst the closed-off ruins of rooms in the palace and the main character facing death --

Italian writers tend to have a close affinity with the location their novel is set in; Morantes History is just as much about war-torn Rome as it is about the characters, Delledas Reeds in the Wind is imbued with the atmosphere of Sardinia, Levis The Periodic Table is entwined with the Piedmont of Levis youth and The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis recreates 1930s Ferrara perfectly. Yet no Italian novel encapsulates the environment it is set in like The Leopard.Bucolic and beautiful, Lampedusa

A rich and luscious novel about a decaying aristocratic family in nineteenth century Sicily. The main protagonists are the Salina family and especially Don Fabrizio (the Leopard of the title) the head of the family. Most of the novel takes place in the early 1860s and there is great descriptive detail throughout capturing the heat and dust of the Sicilian countryside. Lampedusa's descriptions of scents and smells and a decaying grand house are sublime. Religion and the ritual of the Catholic

This book deserves 5 stars for the writing3 for the wasted potential2 for all the characters whose story didn't get told5 for Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, undoubtedly one of Literature's Great Characters.

In this story we meet Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, one of the most important aristocrats of the island of Sicily. A leopard appears on the coat of arms of the Salina family, a symbol that will accompany the prince throughout his life. Don Fabrizio sees at a distance the melancholy of the end of an era that marks the landing of Garibaldi in Sicily.The Prince of Salina and the aristocracy he represents is nearing an end and the bureaucrats and the bourgeoisie take advantage of the new

I read this great book many years ago but still can remember that superb atmosphere of long gone glory. Everything is in decay, a once proud aristocrat (the leopard) got old, time overtook him. Here his long life passes in review. And in the end? Well, the book has one of the greatest and most melancholic endings ever. Absolutely recommended. A modern classic!