How can we forget the famous ball scene and the no less famous line: "Everything must change so that nothing changes"?
It is 1860, Garibaldi has just landed in Palermo, the revolutionary wind of the Risorgimento is shaking Sicily. Don Fabrizio sees the rigor of the old order unravel and impassively watches the ruin of his class...This novel published in 1958 was magnificently adapted for the screen in 1963 by Visconti, notably with Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster.
This edition of the novel (The Women's Club-1966) will delight fans of the book and the film because it contains in the preface an exclusive interview with the adopted son of the Prince of Lampedusa: Duke Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi and magnificent photographs from the film.
- Very good condition. The plastic cover is torn in front but this is almost invisible to the naked eye (see photo).
