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Childhood Memories and Other Stories by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; Stephen Parkin (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin a ...Show more
Childhood Memories and Other Stories by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Category: Biography
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin a ...Show more
LETTERS FROM LONDON AND EUROPE by LAMPEDUSA GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI
Category: Biography Memoir
"The Leopard", published posthumously in 1958, was one of the most important works of fiction to appear in the Italian language in the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1930, its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to his cousins Casimiro and Lucio Piccolo in which he descr ...Show more
Letters of Love and Loss: Correspondence with Alexandra Wolff-Stomersee, 1935-1943 by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Category: Biography
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - the author of The Leopard - got married late and against the will of his parents to the Baltic noblewoman Alexandra Wolff. His relationship with Baroness "Licy", which had started in the heat of passion and romance, ended in a strange domestic arrangement in which the coup ...Show more
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Category: Audio Books | Series: Modern Fiction
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 Tomasi's ma ...Show more
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvill Panther S.
At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to knowing his own place in the world and expects his household to run accordingly. This book memorialises the details of a vanishing world while retaining its melancholic and ironic sense of time passing and the ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Category: Fiction
A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic, a story of opulence and decay in the Sicilian countryside. In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour an ...Show more
The Leopard (Vintage Classic Europeans Series) by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Europeans Ser.
The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily, by day the rattle of ...Show more
The Leopard: With Two Stories and a Memory by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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.
The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel "The Leopard" but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation. "The Professor and the Siren," like "T ...Show more
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