“Perhaps the greatest novel of the century.”

—  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Source: Criticism, L. P. Hartley on The Leopard, quoted in Robin Healey Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) p. 146.

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