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Little Caesar

Rico is a small-time hood who knocks off gas stations for whatever he can take. He heads east and signs up with Sam Vettori's mob. A New Year's Eve robbery at Little Arnie Lorch's casino results in the death of the new crime commissioner Alvin McClure. Rico's good friend Joe Massara, who works at the club as a professional dancer, works as the gang's lookout man and wants out of the gang. Rico is ambitious and eventually takes over Vettori's gang; he then moves up to the next echelon pushing out Diamond Pete Montana. When he orders Joe to dump his girlfriend Olga and re-join the gang, Olga decides there's only one way out for them.

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  • "four novels"
  • "Little Caesar"@it
  • "4 novels"

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  • "W.R. Burnett had first-hand experience of the world he describes in his vivid and terse novel Little Caesar (1929).The novel's hero, Cesare Bandello (Rico), is a "gutter Macbeth", a bad guy who claws his way through the ranks of a Chicago gang, circa 1928. Though the image of Rico is almost inseparable from Edward G. Robinson's star-making performance in the 1930 film version of the book, the novel, inspired in part by Machiavelli's The Prince, remains a fuller experience. It is believed to have had a profound effect on William Faulkner, Horace McCoy, and Graham Greene.There is nothing heroic about Rico. He is not a dashing or even especially talented man; the one gift he possesses is a laser-like focus. It is this intensity that sets him apart from the slovenly hoods that surround him.Rico is a cold, clear-eyed student of human nature. This knowledge initially provides Rico's success, but when it crystallizes into hubris, it results in his ultimate undoing. Rico becomes too satisfied with his success, forgetting that he has prevailed in what is essentially a jungle and that in this place, the laws of survival are immutable and unsparing."
  • "Rico is a small-time hood who knocks off gas stations for whatever he can take. He heads east and signs up with Sam Vettori's mob. A New Year's Eve robbery at Little Arnie Lorch's casino results in the death of the new crime commissioner Alvin McClure. Rico's good friend Joe Massara, who works at the club as a professional dancer, works as the gang's lookout man and wants out of the gang. Rico is ambitious and eventually takes over Vettori's gang; he then moves up to the next echelon pushing out Diamond Pete Montana. When he orders Joe to dump his girlfriend Olga and re-join the gang, Olga decides there's only one way out for them."@en
  • "The story of a small time hoodlum who rises to become a leading gangster in prohibition era Chicago."@en
  • "W.R. Burnett knew, first-hand, of the world he describes in his terse, vivid 1929 novel with a brutally ironic title - Little Caesar. Burnett worked as reporter in Chicago in the 1920s, and he observed the nobodies willing to cheat and kill their way to being somebodies. The novel's hero, Cesare Bandello, known as Rico, is a 'gutter Macbeth', a bad guy who claws his way up through the Chicago gang, circa 1928. Though the very idea of Rico is inseparable from Edward G. Robinson's star-making performance in the 1930 film version of Little Caesar, Burnett's novel is an fuller experience."@en
  • ""Vettori se félicita d'avoir su choisir de si précieux collaborateurs : Rico - le meilleur tireur de la Petite Italie. Otero - tellement fou de Rico qu'il suivra Rico partout, fera tout ce que Rico lui dira. Et de première bourre au revolver. Hé! hé! Pas mal pour un mexicain. Quant à Joe Massara, ça c'est un type! Un Italien élégant comme pas un et qui est chez lui partout. Il s'était fait passer pour un comte et avait plumé une riche veuve en moins de deux. Parfaitement. Voila pour Joe. Et Tony! Il vous aurait fait grimper l'Empire State Building à cent à l'heure dans sa bagnole!"
  • "The story of a small time hoodlum who rises to become a leading gangster in prohibition era Chicago. This book was made into a movie by the same title."

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  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Pictorial works"@en
  • "Specimens"@en
  • "Gangster films"@en
  • "Powieść kryminalna amerykańska"
  • "Movie novels"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"@en
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"
  • "Motion picture plays"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en

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  • "PETIT CESAR"
  • "Little Caesar"
  • "Little Caesar"@en
  • "Little Caesar : screenplay : from the novel by W.R. Burnett"
  • "Little Caesar : screenplay"
  • "Little Caesar : screenplay"@en
  • "Chicago-Cæsar : interiörer från den amerikanska gangstervärlden"
  • "Little Caesar Roman"
  • "Piccolo Cesare"
  • "Piccolo Cesare"@it
  • "Little Caesar : Roman"
  • "El Pequeño César"
  • "Little Caesar ; The asphalt jungle ; High sierra ; Vanity row"@en
  • "Little Caesar The asphalt jungle High Sierra and, Vanity Row"@en
  • "Little Caesar. [A novel.]"@en
  • "Xiao ba wang"
  • "Little caesar"
  • "El pequeño César"
  • "El pequeño César"@es
  • "LITTLE CAESAR"@en
  • "Pikku keisari"@fi
  • "El Petit Cèsar"@ca
  • "Chicago-Cæsar : Interiörer från den amerikanska gangstervärlden"@sv
  • "Le Petit César"
  • "O pequeno Cesar"
  • "El petit cèsar"
  • "Piccolo Cesare : romanzo"@it
  • "Piccolo Cesare : romanzo"
  • "Le petit César"
  • "Little Caesar screenplay"
  • "Little Caesar ; The asphalt jungle ; High Sierra ; Vanity row"
  • "小霸王"
  • "Little Caesar The asphalt jungle ; High sierra ; Vanity row"

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