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Copyright © 1969 by Mario Puzo

Introduction copyright © 2019 by Francis Ford Coppola

“Note from Anthony Puzo” used with permission of Anthony Puzo

Afterword copyright © 2002 by Robert J. Thompson

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the original edition of this book as follows:

Puzo, Mario, 1920–99

The Godfather / by Mario Puzo; with an introduction by Robert J. Thompson; an afterword by Peter Bart.

p.cm.

ISBN 9780451205766 (trade ed.)

1. Corleone family (Fictitious characters)—Fiction. 2. Italian Americans—Fiction.

3. Organized crime—Fiction. 4. New York (NY)—Fiction. 5. Criminals—Fiction.

6. Mafia—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3566.U9G6 2002

13'.54—dc212001056214

New American Library trade paperback edition / March 2002

Berkley trade paperback edition / November 2016

Cover design by Neil Fujita Studio

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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