Little Caesar (RosettaBooks Into Film) Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Riley Burnett (1899-1981) was a master of fiction, a skillful writer, contemporary to James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett. Burnett authored some 36 novels and either wrote alone or in collaboration 60 screenplays. His novels Little Caesar, High Sierra, The Asphalt Jungle represent a rich vein of thought in contemporary American literature and culture.

After he began his career as a writer, Burnett moved to Chicago in the late 1920s at the height of Al Capone's power and sway over the city. It was this atmosphere, Chicago in the '20s and notably the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Burnett was one of the first people on the scene) that inspired Burnett's first great success Little Caesar, which was made into a film by the same name starring Edward G. Robinson.

After this initial success, Burnett had a strong, close working relationship with Hollywood as both a novelist and screenwriter, and eventually found a champion in writer/director John Huston. Burnett collaborated with Huston on the adaptation of High Sierra in 1941 in which Humphrey Bogart redefined himself in the role of Roy Earle. The two men's paths crossed again when Huston filmed The Asphalt Jungle in 1950. The Mystery Writers of America awarded Burnett their highest honor--the prestigious title of Grand Master--at the 1980 Edgar Awards.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

From classic book to classic film, RosettaBooks has gathered some of most memorable books into film available. The selection is broad ranging and far reaching, with books from classic genre to cult classic to science fiction and horror and a blend of the two creating whole new genres like Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man. Classic works from Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, meet with E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Whether the work is centered in the here and now, in the past, or in some distant and almost unimaginable future, each work is lasting and memorable and award-winning.

Little Caesar (RosettaBooks Into Film) by W. R. Burnett

From reader reviews:

Charles Jones:

The e-book with title Little Caesar (RosettaBooks Into Film) contains a lot of information that you can study it. You can get a lot of benefit after read this book. This kind of book exist new expertise the information that exist in this book represented the condition of the world at this point. That is important to yo7u to find out how the improvement of the world. This book will bring you throughout new era of the internationalization. You can read the e-book in your smart phone, so you can read that anywhere you want.

Hubert Drummond:

The book untitled Little Caesar (RosettaBooks Into Film) contain a lot of information on it. The writer explains your girlfriend idea with easy approach. The language is very straightforward all the people, so do definitely not worry, you can easy to read that. The book was written by famous author. The author gives you in the new period of literary works. It is possible to read this book because you can keep reading your smart phone, or product, so you can read the book in anywhere and anytime. If you want to buy the e-book, you can available their official web-site and also order it. Have a nice learn.

Christopher Small:

A lot of reserve has printed but it differs from the others. You can get it by web on social media. You can choose the most effective book for you, science, comic, novel, or whatever by searching from it. It is known as of book Little Caesar (RosettaBooks Into Film). You'll be able to your knowledge by it. Without leaving behind the printed book, it may add your knowledge and make an individual happier to read. It is most important that, you must aware about e-book. It can bring you from one location to other place.

Jamie Durbin:

Reading a publication make you to get more knowledge from this. You can take knowledge and information from your book. Book is created or printed or created from each source in which filled update of news. With this modern era like at this point, many ways to get information are available for a person. From media social similar to newspaper, magazines, science book, encyclopedia, reference book, new and comic. You can add your understanding by that book. Are you hip to spend your spare time to open your book? Or just trying to find the Little Caesar (RosettaBooks Into Film) when you required it?