马里奥普佐《教父》英文原版小说电子版MarioPuzo'sTheGodfather

3 THE GODFATHER IS A STAGGERING TRIUMPH...THE DEFINITIVE NOVEL ABOUT A SINISTER FRATERNITY OF CRIME... --Saturday Review YOU CAN T STOP READING IT, AND YOU LL FIND IT HARD TO STOP DREAMING ABOUT IT! --New York Magazine 4 THE GODFATHER Mario Puzo Copyright Mario Puzo 1969 All rights reserved 5 For Anthony Cleri About the Author Mario Puzo was born on Manhattan s West Side in a neighborhood known for decades as Hell s Kitchen. His first books, The Fortunate Pilgrim ( a minor classic NY Times) and Dark Arena, brought him critical acclaim, but it was publication of The Godfather in March 1969, that catapulted him into the front ranks of American authors. Reviewers hailed the book as a staggering triumph (Saturday Review), big, turbulent, highly entertaining (Newsweek), remarkable (Look), a voyeur s dream, a skillful fantasy of violent personal power (New York Times). Winning readers by the millions, it stayed at or near the top of the New York Times best-seller lists for sixty-nine weeks. Fools Die, Mario Puzo s brilliant new novel about the feverish world of the big-time gambler, has been hailed as the publishing event of the decade. 6 BOOK I Behind every great fortune there is a crime. --BALZAC 7 Chapter 1 Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for (萨日朗什么意思？萨日朗是一种红色的花，细小的茎叶，白色象蒜一样的鳞茎，火红的花冠向上卷起，内蒙古草原的人们叫它萨日朗花。 蒙语萨日朗花，翻译成汉语就是草原上的山丹花，象征夫妻和睦，也象征多子多福。)justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her. The judge, a formidably heavy-featured man, rolled up the sleeves of his black robe as if to physically chastise the two young men standing before the bench. His face was cold with majestic contempt. But there was something false in all this that Amerigo Bonasera sensed but did not yet understand. You acted like the worst kind of degenerates, the judge said harshly. Yes, yes, thought Amerigo Bonasera. Animals. Animals. The two young men, glossy hai...