Leopard
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 and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Pr...
Leopard
** NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES** The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. 'There is a great feeling of opulence...
Leoparden och Berättelser
Det är 1860-tal och en omvälvande tid på Sicilien. Giuseppe Garibaldis styrkor sveper fram över den italienska halvön med målet att ena landets många små kungadömen i en republik. En av Siciliens mest framstående familjer är Familjen Corbera, med överhuvudet Don Fabrizio, prins av Salina. Då Garibaldi landstiger på ön ställs Don Fabrizios tillvaro på sin spets. Hans ställning har redan tidigare satts i gungning av nyrika bönder och lågadel, och han konfronteras nu med hotet om en fullst
Childhood Memories and Other Stories
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Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment ‘Torretta’, collects all of Lampedusa’s extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writer’s workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece. From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa and the Palazzo Filangeri Cutò at the turn of the twentieth century in ‘Childhood Memories’ to the delightful fable ‘The Siren’, from the gently humorous, bittersweet tones of ‘Joy and the Law’ to ‘The Blind Kittens’ – the first chapter of what was intended to be a sequel to The Leopard – this volume showcases Lampedusa’s unparalleled observational powers and narrative skills.
