In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: "Some huge irrational disaster is in the making." All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses the ruin of the class and inheritance that already disgust him. His favorite nephew, Tancredi, proffers the paradox, "If we want things to stay as they are, they will have to change," but Don Fabrizio would rather take refuge in skepticism or astronomy, "the sublime routine of the skies."
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, also an astronomer and a Sicilian prince, was 58 when he started to write The Leopard, though he had had it in his mind for 25 years. E. M. Forster called his work "one of the great lonely books." What renders it so beautiful and so discomfiting is its creator's grasp of human frailty and, equally, of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." The author died at the age of 60, soon after finishing The Leopard, though he did live long enough to see it rejected as unpublishable.A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, also an astronomer and a Sicilian prince, was 58 when he started to write The Leopard, though he had had it in his mind for 25 years. E. M. Forster called his work "one of the great lonely books." What renders it so beautiful and so discomfiting is its creator's grasp of human frailty and, equally, of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." The author died at the age of 60, soon after finishing The Leopard, though he did live long enough to see it rejected as unpublishable.A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
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Hardback Editions
May 2010 : Hardback
| Title: The Leopard: Limited Centenary edition Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ISBN: 1-84655-391-1 / 9781846553912 (UK edition) Publisher: Harvill Secker Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1998 : Hardback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: Everyman's Library Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
October 1991 : Hardback
| Title: The Leopard (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) Author(s): Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-679-40757-X / 978-0-679-40757-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Everyman's Library Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1991 : Hardback
| Title: The Leopard (Everyman's Library classics) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 1-85715-023-6 / 9781857150230 (UK edition) Publisher: Everyman Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
December 1986 : Hardback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-271459-0 / 978-0-00-271459-4 (UK edition) Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1963 : Hardback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: Collins/Havill Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1961 : Hardback
| Title: THE LEOPARD Author(s): LAMPEDUSA Giuseppe Tomasi di Publisher: Collins World Books Reprint Society Availability: Amazon More details... |
December 1960 : Hardback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-261450-2 / 978-0-00-261450-4 (UK edition) Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
September 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard: Revised and with new material (Vintage Classics) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-09-951215-7 / 978-0-09-951215-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Classics Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2005 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard (Harvill Panther) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 2003 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon More details... |
1996 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 1-86046-145-X / 9781860461453 (UK edition) Publisher: The Harvill Press / Panther Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 1993 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 1-86046-191-3 / 9781860461910 (UK edition) Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1992 : Paperback
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July 1991 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-679-73121-0 / 978-0-679-73121-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Pantheon Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1988 : Paperback
| Title: THE LEOPARD. Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di LAMPEDUSA Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1988 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard (with a Memory and two Stories) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-271467-1 / 978-0-00-271467-9 (UK edition) Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1987 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated Availability: Amazon More details... |
December 1986 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-271369-1 / 978-0-00-271369-6 (UK edition) Publisher: The Harvill Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 1984 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard (Flamingo) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-654036-8 / 978-0-00-654036-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Flamingo Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
March 1982 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi Di, Di Lampedusa Giuseppe T., Lampesusa Giuseppe ISBN: 0-394-74949-9 / 978-0-394-74949-5 (USA edition) Publisher: A Pantheon Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1974 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard (Fontana modern novels) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-613530-7 / 978-0-00-613530-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Fontana Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 1969 : Paperback
| Title: The Leopard (Fontana modern novels) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-612186-1 / 978-0-00-612186-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Fontana Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1966 : Mass Market Paperback
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1963 : Paperback
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1963 : Paperback
| Title: The leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-00-616437-4 / 978-0-00-616437-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Fontana Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1961 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-451-01960-1 / 978-0-451-01960-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Signet Availability: Amazon More details... |
Audio Editions
November 2000 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Leopard: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Guiseppe di Lampedusa ISBN: 1-85549-475-2 / 9781855494756 (UK edition) Publisher: Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1983 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ISBN: 9997009169 / 9789997009166 Publisher: Caedmon Audio Cassette Availability: Amazon More details... |
Other Editions
December 2009 : Unknown
| Title: The Leopard [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ISBN: 1-61574-513-0 / 9781615745135 (USA edition) Publisher: Playaway Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
November 2009 : Unknown
| Title: The Leopard (Unabridged) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1988 : Unknown
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Publisher: Folio Society Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
October 1987 : Unbound
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ISBN: 0-394-75668-1 / 978-0-394-75668-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Pantheon Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1963 : Unknown
| Title: The Leopard (Fontana books) Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: Collins Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1960 : Unknown
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: CollinsHarvill P Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1960 : Unknown
| Title: The Leopard Author(s): Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: CollinsHarvill P Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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