Christiane Michel’s study guide offers a structured reading of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel Le Guépard, known in English as The Leopard. Aimed at students and readers seeking a clearer path through the work, it places the novel in its historical and literary context and highlights the social transformations at the center of the narrative. The guide examines the tensions between tradition and change, the erosion of aristocratic power, and the way personal destinies reflect wider political upheaval. It also supports close reading by drawing attention to character dynamics, narrative structure, and the novel’s treatment of memory, class, and historical transition. Written as an educational companion, the book helps clarify major interpretive questions while encouraging readers to engage with Lampedusa’s prose and the broader significance of one of the major works of twentieth-century Italian literature.