Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Author, Archibald Colquhoun, Translator, Guido Waldman, Translator Harvill Press $24 (0p) ISBN 978-1-86046-021-0
Talk about a late bloomer: Lampedusa (1896-1957) generated nearly all of his literary work during the last 30 months of his life-including two short stories, an opening chapter to a novel, some informal literary essays and his classic historical...
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, trans. from the Italian by J.G. Nichols. Alma Books (TSP, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-84688-137-4
Born to an aristocratic Italian family in 1896, di Lampedusa (best known as the author of The Leopard) took advantage of his birthright by traveling through Europe. Centered around his trips from 1925 to 1930, the letters collected in this...
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Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Twilley. New York Review Books, $12.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-59017-719-8
The reputation of Sicilian writer Lampedusa rests entirely on his lone novel The Leopard, written at the end of his life and published posthumously. That said, the title story from this slim collection is a classic of weird fiction revolving around...
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