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Excerpt
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955 and includes the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood. ---------- Also contained in: - [The Godfather / The Fortunate Pilgrim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7920005W) - [The Godfather / The Last Don](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1673242W)
Literary origin
Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.
United States
Topics from Open Library
Subjects
- Detective and mystery stories
- Organized crime
- Criminals
- Italian Americans
- Mafia
- Fiction
- Criminals in fiction
- Drama
- Italian Americans in fiction
- Mafia in fiction
People
- Corleone family
- Amerigo Bonasera
- Vito Corleone
- Santino Corleone
- Frederico Corleone
- Michael Corleone
- Constanzia Corleone
- Thomas Hagen
- Johnny Fontane
- Kay Adams