Confronting the social changes sweeping nineteenth-century Italy, including the forces of revolution and democracy, an elderly Sicilian aristocrat arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy merchant. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.[...]

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa s brief but brilliant writing career lasted a mere two years before he succumbed to lung cancer. In that time he produced one novel (The Leopard), three stories, and the beginning of a memoir, Places of my Infancy a tour of Lampedusa s family estates in Sicily at the tur[...]

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 S[...]

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 Park[...]

A bitter-sweet tale of quiet lives in the small and apparently timeless world of mid-19th century Sicilian nobility. Through the eyes of his princely protagonist, the author chronicles the details of an aristocratic, pastoral society, torn apart by revolution, death and decay.[...]

Der Leopard erzählt vom Niedergang eines sizilianischen Adelsgeschlechts während des Risorgimento, der Einigung Italiens in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Nach der Landung Garibaldis auf Sizilien 1860 bricht die alte Bourbonenherrschaft zusammen und die Insel wird Teil des italien[...]

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusas klassiske værk er en ironisk skildring af den sicilianske adels storhed og fald - og Italiens samling.

På Sicilien, i revolutionsåret 1860, frygter det gamle aristokrati for sine privilegier og bakker instinktivt op om kong Ferdinando mod Garibaldis [...]

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'[...]