Giovanni Guareschi, "Don Camillo Takes the Devil by the Tail", translated by Frances Frebaye, published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1957, stated First Printing 1957. "Don Camillo, the irascible parish priest of the Little World, and his equally tempestuous opponent, Peppone, the Communist mayor, are engaged again in a series of battles. It is not sufficient that each has own problems.

For years Don Camillo has had an impossible statue in the sacristy of the parish church, a statue of Saint Babila, which is much too large and too decrepit to be anything but a rather unsightly nuisance to the already crowded church- crowded, that is, not with people but with statues of perhaps more remembered saints. Don Camillo feels that some action must be taken ...

Peppone's problem as leader of the Communist Party grow more complicated daily. Not only does he have to combat the archpriest, Don Camillo, but suddenly the word comes from Moscow that Stalin is to be posthumously liquidated. Now you can do that sort of thing in the big cities where people are organized. It is another matter in a small town ... where each person is an individual ..."[from the dj flap]

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