Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Conversation Poems, Sonnets on Eminent Characters, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 31. Chapters: August Heat, A Bell for Adano (novel), A Journey to the Center of the Earth, A Sicilian Romance, Blood Rain (novel), Conversations in Sicily, Equal Danger, Excursion to Tindari, In the Hand of Dante, I Malavoglia, L'Esclusa, Rounding the Mark, The Age of Doubt, The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, The Lady of the Wheel, The Leopard, The Paper Moon, The Patience of the Spider, The Potters Field, The Ruby in her Navel, The Scent of the Night, The Shape of Water, The Sicilian, The Terracotta Dog, The Track of Sand, The Voice of the Violin, The Wings of the Sphinx, Vendetta for the Saint. Excerpt: The Leopard (Italian: ) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses Mondadori and Einaudi, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of The 10 best historical novels. The novel was also made into an award-winning 1963 film of the same name, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon. Tomasi was the last in a line of minor princes in Sicily, and he had long contemplated writing a historical novel based on his great-grandfather, Don Giulio Fabrizio Tomasi, another Prince of Lampedusa. After the Lampedusa palace was bombed and pillaged by Allied forces in World War II, Tomasi sank into a lengthy depression, and began to write Il Gattopardo as a way to combat it. Despite being universally known in English as The Leopard, the original title Il Gattopardo actually refers to a serval. Although uncommon north of the Sahara Desert, one...