 "The Independent on Sunday (London, England)")
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In search of lost time Lampedusa revisited.(Features)
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The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
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May 4, 2003| Author:
Byrnes, Sholto
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The Leopard is one of those novels that stands no middling, no umming and ahhing over its stature. There are some sadly unaware of this masterpiece by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa, which was only published after his death in 1957. Their sadness is as a veil to be lifted, though, for as anyone who knows the book will tell them: a great joy awaits. No one who reads what L P Hartley described as "perhaps the greatest novel of the century" can fai...