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1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

This article is about the novel.

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In his classic novel The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, namesake of an aristocratic family from that small and starkly beautiful island, reflected on the.

This is a bundle of his short fiction and (the pearl) his memories of his childhood in a lost world of almost unimaginable privilege and beauty.

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For other uses, see The Leopard (disambiguation).

The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo[ilˌɡattoˈpardo]) is a novel by Italian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento.

Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses Mondadori and Einaudi, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature.

In 1959, it won Italy's highest award for fiction, the Strega Prize.^[1] In 2012, The Guardian named it as one of "the 10 best historical novels".^[2] The novel was made into an award-winning 1963 film of the same name, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon.

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