Mario Puzo "The Godfather Trilogy" Leather Bound Limited Edition, 3 Vol. Matched Set

The Ultimate Shelf Presence: Easton Press Godfather Trilogy, in a Limited Edition Heirloom 22KT Gold Matched Set.

"I think [The Godfather] is a perfectly-executed book, with great invention of story." --Mario Puzo

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Easton Press, Norwalk CT. 2003. Mario Puzo "The Godfather Trilogy". Three volume complete matching set. A limited collector's edition, luxuriously bound in full genuine leather. More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that was passed on from father to son.

This exquisite, out-of-stock Easton Press three-volume matched set brings Mario Puzo’s monumental mafia masterpieces to life in a stunning heirloom format. Featuring The Godfather, The Last Don, and Omerta (Puzo's posthumous final trilogy novel), this luxury collection is a crown jewel for any serious literary collector or cinematic history buff.

The set is meticulously designed by Easton Press with uniform red/maroon leather bindings and custom-stamped gold images on the spines.

Complete three volume set in one shipment:

1) THE GODFATHER [Near Fine+]

2) THE LAST DON [Sealed/Very Fine]

3) OMERTA [Sealed/Very Fine]

With its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, it resonated with millions of readers across the world-and became the definitive novel of the virile, violent subculture that remains steeped in intrigue, in controversy, and in our collective consciousness. A leather bound heirloom, as new , in the original shrink-wrap from the publisher without any flaws.

The Godfather has sold 21 million copies and has remained 67 weeks on the bestseller list.

Mario Puzo

Mario Francis Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for its sequel Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for Superman (1978) and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.

The Godfather

Mario Puzo has here created an extraordinary novel; it pulsates with dramatic and evil incident, brute rage, and the naked terror of an infamous underworld. Puzo takes us inside the violence-infested society of the Mafia and its gang wars. He shows us its trials by gunfire and torture and the nature of Mafia friendship. The Godfather is essentially the story of a man and his power, and it is a reading experience one is not likely to forget.

The Godfather is Mafia leader Vito Corleone, benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power.

The Godfather is a friendly man, a "reasonable" man, a just man -- and the deadliest gang leader in the Cosa Nostra.

The Godfather's command post is a fortress on Long Island, from which he presides over a vast underground empire that encompasses the rackets, gambling, bookmaking, and unions. Tyrant, blackmailer, murderer -- he gives his friendship (no man dares refuse it), rights wrongs (even murder is not too great a price for "justice"). His influence runs through all levels of American society, from the cop on the beat to the nation's mighty.

Mario Puzo introduces us to an extraordinary gallery of men and women and re-creates the feudal world of the Mafiosi. The elements of this world explode electrically to life in this violent and impassioned chronicle. It is a spellbinding story, written with authentic knowledge of this particular milieu and with the hand of a master storyteller.

Reviews

“A staggering triumph...The definitive novel about a sinister fraternity of crime.”—The Saturday Review

“You can’t stop reading it, and you’ll find it hard to stop dreaming about it.”—New York Magazine

The Last Don

The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather.The story alternates between the film industry and the Las Vegas Strip casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to them both.

In a corrupt world where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, one man has power over them all. "The Last Don" is Mario Puzo at his finest - a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzios, and their powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. Domenico Clericuzio is a wise and ruthless man who in his old age is determined to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. But as he strives to establish his heirs in legitimate society, secrets from his family's past spark a vicious and bloody war between cousins...

Omerta

Omertà is a novel by Mario Puzo, published posthumously in 2000. It was first published by Ballantine Books. Omertà follows the story of Don Aprile's adopted "nephew" Astorre Viola. This is the final book in Puzo's mafia trilogy. The first two were The Godfather and The Last Don.

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.

Now his time has arrived. The Don is dead, his murder one bloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit--from the deadly compromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frightening plans of a South American mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after all these years, this moment is in his blood. . . .

Publication

Puzo never saw the publication of Omertà, but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for The Family. In a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that Omertà may have been completed by "some talentless hack." Siegel also acknowledges the temptation to "rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis – that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible."