Editing The Godfather (novel) (section)

==Literary references==
The Corleone family closely resembles the Karamazov family in ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'': a powerful father, an impulsive oldest son, a philosophical son, a sweet-tempered son, and an adopted stepson who is maintained as an employee. [[Honoré de Balzac]]'s novel ''[[Le Père Goriot]]'' (1835) has been the inspiration for notable lines that have gained wide popularity in cinema history. Similarly, Puzo opened his 1969 novel with an epigraph popularly attributed to Balzac:  "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." The saying is most likely evolved over time from Balzac's original text: "The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out because it was properly executed."<ref>[http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/#more-7188 Quote Investigator]: Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac, Edited by George Saintsbury, Old Goriot (Le Père Goriot)  (1896), Translated by Ellen Marriage, Quote Page 124, J. M. Dent and Co., London and New York. "Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il an été proprement fait. 1834, Revue de Paris, Volume 12, Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, Seconde Partie: L’entrée dans le monde, Start Page 237, Quote Page 258, Au Bureau De La Revue De Paris, Paris, France. (Google Books full view); http://www.e-corpus.org/notices/150840/gallery/1947340/fulltext; viewed 10-2-2014.</ref>

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" was included in both the original Puzo novel and in the [[The Godfather|film adaptation]]. It is the second-ranking cinematic quote included in [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]] (2005) by the [[American Film Institute]]. Its origin may be from the same work to which Balzac is credited with the opening epigraph. Balzac wrote of [[Vautrin]] telling Eugene: "In that case, I will make you an offer that no one would decline."<ref>http://www.literaturepage.com/read/balzac-father-goriot-104.html (Father Goriot, page 104 in Chapter 1); "Dans ces conjunctures, Je vais vous faire une proposition Que personne ne refuserait. Honoré de Balzac, ''Œuvres complètes'' de H. de Balzac (1834), Calmann-Lévy, 1910 (Le Père Goriot, II. L'entrée dans le monde, pp. 110–196); viewed 10-2-2014.</ref>