The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Ralph Nisbet (.ePUB)
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Ralph Nisbet
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Overview: A new translation of one of Italy’s best-selling classic novels of all time, a sumptuous portrait of the Sicilian aristocracy in their twilight days on the eve of unification.
In the dark heart of Sicily, Prince Fabrizio, known as ‘The Leopard’, presides over an immense but fast-dwindling fortune. His power extends across the opulent drawing rooms of his palazzo to vast lands, and some say even to the stars themselves.
But as Garibaldi’s red shirts march closer to Palermo, and Fabrizio’s shrewdly calculating nephew defects to their cause, Fabrizio faces a choice: cling to the crumbling institutions of old or welcome in a new Italy.
Winner of the 1959 Strega Prize and told in a masterly new translation, The Leopard memorializes the faded splendour of the Sicilian aristocracy on the eve of revolution.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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