![]() ![]() Readers are likely to prefer one book over the other, but I am sure that if they enjoyed one they are very likely to enjoy the other. Together these books complement each other and give the reader a reasonably balanced view of Italian life over around a 100 years. Stendhal writes dramatically about adventures and high emotions, whereas Lampedusa is far less baroque about it and writes with greater reserve and elegance. The Leopard is set in the South, much of it in Sicily, starting over halfway through the 19th Century and ending in the next one. ![]() The Charterhouse is set mainly in the north, around Milan, Parma, and Lake Como, near the Swiss border, in the first half of the 19th Century. They both are set in Italy and are concerned with court and family life, with politics, and the state of the country at the time they were written. ![]() 4 2 The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal ( P_S_Patrick) P_S_Patrick: These two books have a fair bit in common, though much is different between them too. ![]()
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