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 | The Leopard: A Novel (Reprint Edition) by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, Archibald Colquhuon (Translator), Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi (Foreword), Guido Waldman (Translator) Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-375-71479-0 / 0375714790 ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71479-5 / 9780375714795 The Leopard is set in Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification is coming violently into being, but it transcends the historical-novel classification. E.M. Forster called it, instead, "a novel which happens to take place in history." Lampedusa's Sicily is a land where each social gesture is freight | |