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• catalog abstract "Although best known as author of a singular masterpiece, The Leopard, the Prince of Lampedusa left a rich and varied oeuvre that repays a careful reading. The best and most representative of it is collected in this volume. Places of My Infancy, a childhood memory of the Lampedusa palace in Palermo at the turn of the century, and of the great family mansion inland at Santa Margherita, provides a fascinating background to the princely setting of The Leopard. The text hitherto published had been edited and pruned by the author's widow, and resulted in a somewhat impoverished version. Here the author's original text - with many characters and incidents earlier suppressed - has been fully restored. The story of The Professor and the Siren, a delicious example of Lampedusa's fantasy, and The Blind Kittens (the first chapter of an unfinished novel of bourgeois Sicily that would have formed a pendant to The Leopard) both featured as appendices to Harvill's earlier edition of the great novel. They are included here together with a charming, comic, bitter-sweet story, Joy and the Law. Guiseppe di Lampedusa's knowledge of English literature, which derived from a lifetime's reading as well as from a number of extended visits to Britain as a young man, bore fruit in a series of informal seminars he gave in his later years at Palermo. The plan was to introduce his listeners to English writers from Bede to Aldous Huxley, pausing along the way not only at the great classics but also among the lesser known Restoration poets and Victorian novelists. To this, as also in his shrewd and dynamic appraisal of the French novelist Stendhal, he brought the lucid intellect and warmth of feeling that informs his own deeply Sicilian creative genius.".
• catalog alternative "Prose works. Selections. English".
• catalog alternative "Siren".
• catalog contributor b7835605.
• catalog contributor b7835606.
• catalog contributor b7835607.
• catalog contributor b7835608.
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description "Although best known as author of a singular masterpiece, The Leopard, the Prince of Lampedusa left a rich and varied oeuvre that repays a careful reading. The best and most representative of it is collected in this volume. Places of My Infancy, a childhood memory of the Lampedusa palace in Palermo at the turn of the century, and of the great family mansion inland at Santa Margherita, provides a fascinating background to the princely setting of The Leopard. The text hitherto published had been edited and pruned by the author's widow, and resulted in a somewhat impoverished version. Here the author's original text - with many characters and incidents earlier suppressed - has been fully restored. The story of The Professor and the Siren, a delicious example of Lampedusa's fantasy, and The Blind Kittens (the first chapter of an unfinished novel of bourgeois Sicily that would have formed a pendant to The Leopard) both featured as appendices to Harvill's earlier edition of the great novel. They are included here together with a charming, comic, bitter-sweet story, Joy and the Law. Guiseppe di Lampedusa's knowledge of English literature, which derived from a lifetime's reading as well as from a number of extended visits to Britain as a young man, bore fruit in a series of informal seminars he gave in his later years at Palermo. The plan was to introduce his listeners to English writers from Bede to Aldous Huxley, pausing along the way not only at the great classics but also among the lesser known Restoration poets and Victorian novelists. To this, as also in his shrewd and dynamic appraisal of the French novelist Stendhal, he brought the lucid intellect and warmth of feeling that informs his own deeply Sicilian creative genius.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog description "Introduction to the Memory and Three stories / by David Gilmour -- Places of my infancy : a memory. Casa Lampedusa ; The journey ; The house ; The garden ; The church and the theatre ; Excursions ; The pink dining-room -- Three stories. The professor and the siren ; The blind kittens (Chapter I of an unfinished novel) ; Joy and the law -- Introduction to the essays on English literature and Stendhal / by David Gilmour -- English literature -- Shakespeare. The betrayals of Falstaff ; A subterranean love : measure for measure ; Opera and Othello ; Opera mania : a digression ; Macbeth -- Englishness. Isaak Walton ; Samuel Johnson ; G.K. Chesterton -- Prejudice and predilection. Keats among the angels ; Scott and boredom ; Jane Austen and the Italians ; The fausse bonhomie of Robert Burns ; Haworth and Emily Brontë -- Dickens. The cosmic creators ; The Pickwick papers ; Dickens's London ; Dombey and son ; Dickens's characters, major and minor -- Greene and christianity -- Tutorials on Stendhal. Introductory ; Stendhal's style ; The travel writer ; Le rouge et le noir ; La chartreuse de Parme.".
• catalog extent "184 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Siren and selected writings.".
• catalog identifier "1860460216 (hardback)".
• catalog identifier "1860460224 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Siren and selected writings.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng ita".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London : Harvill Press,".
• catalog relation "Siren and selected writings.".
• catalog subject "858.91208 20".
• catalog subject "English literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Italian literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Italian literature".
• catalog subject "PQ4843.O53 A6 1995".
• catalog subject "Stendhal, 1783-1842 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, 1896-1957 Childhood and youth.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to the Memory and Three stories / by David Gilmour -- Places of my infancy : a memory. Casa Lampedusa ; The journey ; The house ; The garden ; The church and the theatre ; Excursions ; The pink dining-room -- Three stories. The professor and the siren ; The blind kittens (Chapter I of an unfinished novel) ; Joy and the law -- Introduction to the essays on English literature and Stendhal / by David Gilmour -- English literature -- Shakespeare. The betrayals of Falstaff ; A subterranean love : measure for measure ; Opera and Othello ; Opera mania : a digression ; Macbeth -- Englishness. Isaak Walton ; Samuel Johnson ; G.K. Chesterton -- Prejudice and predilection. Keats among the angels ; Scott and boredom ; Jane Austen and the Italians ; The fausse bonhomie of Robert Burns ; Haworth and Emily Brontë -- Dickens. The cosmic creators ; The Pickwick papers ; Dickens's London ; Dombey and son ; Dickens's characters, major and minor -- Greene and christianity -- Tutorials on Stendhal. Introductory ; Stendhal's style ; The travel writer ; Le rouge et le noir ; La chartreuse de Parme.".
• catalog title "Prose works. Selections. English".
• catalog title "Siren".
• catalog title "The siren and selected writings / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ; translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun, David Gilmour and Guido Waldman ; with introductions by David Gilmour.".
• catalog type "text".