**You are bidding on a fantastic paperback called The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. For the first time in paperbound - the internationally famous bestseller and prize-winning novel that has been hailed as a masterpiece around the world. A Signet Book #T1960, original price .75 cents. Complete and Unabridged. 1st Printing, September 1961. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. Published by The New American Library. Book measures 4 1/4 by 7 inches, 8 chapters, 285 pages. Front and back covers show moderate shelf wear, some paper loss, rubbing and creasing. Spine is beginning to roll, minimal creasing, dings at the top and toe. Pages are browned, no creases, tears or marks - however, the first few pages have some tiny tears at the top right. Inside front and back covers are browning around the edges, no writing. The first page has the owners name written in red ink.  {5895.8895}

"Winner of Italy's highest literary prize, The Strega Award. The Leopard has been acclaimed as a novel of extraordinary beauty and power by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by a Sicilian prince who died in 1957 thinking his work would never be published, this novel seems destined to take its place among the classics of world literature. The story is set in the vivid and autere grandeur of Sicily and centers on the life of Don Fabrizio, a remarkable man, a tolerant despot who rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own family. He is the 'Leopard', so named for the proud beast emblazoned on his family's coat of arms. The time is 1860, Garibaldi and his redshirts have landed in Sicily on their way to overthrow the Bourbon monarchy in Naples. Power is rapidly passing from the hands of the feudal landowners to the new bourgeoisie. In a series of vivid episodes, the author brilliantly portrays Don Fabrizio's emotions and thoughts as he reacts to the inexonerable events that are hastening the death of his aristocratic, leisurely, lavish way of life. Though the theme of The Leopard is elegiac, the writing is entertainment of the highest order. A highly civilized man of the world calls on his abilities as philosopher, historian, poet, and psychologist to sum up, at the end of his life, his own vision of the human condition in a work of unforgettable reality."

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