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Childhood Memories and Other Stories
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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 Other than three articles that appeared in an obscure Italian journal in 1926 - 27, Lampedusa was unpublished in his own lifetime.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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