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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957)

Author of The Leopard

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Image credit: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) - 11th prince of Lampedusa. Author of "Il Gatopardo" (The Leopard)

Works by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Leopard (1958) 6,526 copies
The Professor and the Siren (1961) 160 copies
I racconti (1957) 83 copies
Two Stories and a Memory (1962) 64 copies
Opere (1995) 25 copies
Stendhal (1977) 19 copies
Shakespeare (1994) 18 copies
Relatos (1983) 17 copies
De sirene (1958) 16 copies
De verhalen (1997) 11 copies
Letteratura inglese (1990) 11 copies
Ein Literat auf Reisen (2006) 11 copies
Byron (1999) 10 copies
Tots els contes (1988) 7 copies
Jutustused (2017) 5 copies
Voyage en Europe (2007) 4 copies
SIREN (2019) 3 copies
Scritti ritrovati (1993) 2 copies
Racconti (1961) 2 copies
Viagem Pela Europa (2007) 2 copies
Lighea (2010) 2 copies
La sirena (2014) 2 copies
Els contes (2020) 1 copy
Os Contos (2017) 1 copy
1999 1 copy
Szekspir (2001) 1 copy
Erzählungen 1 copy
Hlébarðinn 1 copy
Erzählungen 1 copy
දිවියා (2017) 1 copy

Associated Works

Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Contributor — 152 copies
The Leopard [1963 film] (1963) — Original book — 147 copies
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories (2019) — Contributor — 135 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1960 v03 (1960) — Author — 20 copies
Italien erzählt : elf Erzählungen — Author — 5 copies

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A beautifully crafted poetic work that portrays the noble passage of a powerful Sicilian to a state of powerlessness. I do so miss these characters!
 
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jemisonreads | 146 other reviews | Jan 22, 2024 |
I picked up this book for free as a local library discard. I recognised the title, but knew little of the book. And what a pleasant surprise! A very readable account of a different era and different people.
Written by the last of a long line of Sicilian nobility in the 1950s, the book tells of the decline of Sicilian nobility in the 1860s at the time of the unification of Italy. Gently written, but with plenty of barbs hidden in plain sight, the book makes a lost time and place accessible to modern readers.… (more)
 
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mbmackay | 146 other reviews | Aug 4, 2023 |
I didn't really enjoy this book, but I did appreciate it more after discussing it at book group with other people who loved it. I think its a bit 'men's fiction' with the female characters a bit flimsy a lot of the time, but actually the way it shows the decline of the aristocracy in Italy is pretty interesting, and I did more enjoy the final chapter with the old ladies and their relics.
 
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AlisonSakai | 146 other reviews | Jun 9, 2023 |
i was mesmerized by this novel, as i am, by habit and choice, a backward-looking human who can be startled by the long-known. also, just love a ball scene.

i sat up and gasped at this passage from chapter 6

(November 1862)

The ballroom was all golden: smooth on the cornices, uneven on the door frames, in a pale almost silvery design against a darker background on the door panels and on the shutters annulling the windows, thus conferring on the room the look of some superb jewel case shut off from an unworthy world...a faded gold, pale as the hair of Nordic children, determinedly hiding its value under a muted use of precious material intended to let beauty be seen and cost forgotten. Here and there on the panels were knots of rococo flowers in a color so faint as to seem just an ephemeral pink reflected from the chandeliers.

That solar hue, that variegation of gleam and shade, made Don Fabrizio's heart ache as he stood black and stiff in a doorway...

The notes of the waltz in the warm air seemed to him but a stylization of the incessant winds harping their own sorrows on the parched surfaces, today, yesterday, tomorrow, forever and forever. The crowd of dancers...began to seem unreal, made up of that material from which are woven lapsed memories, more elusive than the stuff of disturbing dreams. From the ceiling the gods, reclining on gilded couches, gazed down smiling and inexorable as a summer sky. They thought themselves eternal; but a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was to prove the contrary in 1943.
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