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The impish priest in a small Italian village who is constantly at loggerheads
with the local communist leader Peppone.  Here he manages to become the cell
leader of the communist group and is invited to Russia.

Guareschi was also a cartoonist, and did the small line drawings that
accompanied the texts.
  
sometimes he's an angel, but then, he can also be tempted ...

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