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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the 20th century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of 60. 'Childhood Memories and Other Stories' provides a glimpse into the writer's workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece.
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa, was born in Palermo in 1896. Other than three articles that appeared in an obscure Italian journal in 1926 - 27, Lampedusa was unpublished in his own lifetime. He began The Leopard, his only novel, in 1954, at the age of fifty-eight. When he died aged sixty-one, the completed manuscript of The Leopard had received only rejections from publishers.
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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. * The Times * Handsome book... Parkin's translation does justice to Lampedusa's elegant, elaborate prose... The prose flows with the allegro and cadences of a Mozart piano composition. * TLS * [The Siren] is an enigmatic, tantalizing and haunting tale of rare beauty which glints like a finely cut diamond. * TLS * Lampedusa wrote two masterpieces and this, as bizarre as it sounds, is the other one. * The Telegraph * A man with the deep soul of an Old European, who was wise and witty. * The Lady *
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- PublisherAlma Classics
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 184749305X
- ISBN 13 9781847493057
- BindingHardcover
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