
Elegiac, bittersweet and profoundly moving, The Leopard chronicles the turbulent transformation of the Risorgimento, in the period of Italian Unification. The waning feudal authority of the elegant and stately Prince of Salina is pitted against the materialistic cunning of Don Calogero, in Tomasis magnificently descriptive memorial to a dying age. Tomasis award-winning, semi-autobiographical book ...
Series: Complete Classics
Audio CD: 8 pages
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks; Unabridged edition (November 3, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9626349964
ISBN-13: 978-9626349960
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 2 x 5 inches
Amazon Rank: 2982941
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Published first in 1957, the year of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's death! That was only six years before the acclaimed film by Luchino Visconti was released. But Il Gattopardo is ineluctably a 20th C novel masquerading as a 19th C Romance, in style as muc...
best-selling novel in Italian history, and is now considered one of the greatest works of 20th-century fiction. It tells an age-old tale of the conflict between old and new, ancient and modern, reflecting bitterly on the inevitability and cruelty of change.