Novel
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi · 1883
Synopsis
A carpenter, Master Antonio, finds a piece of wood that talks and gives it to his neighbour Geppetto, who carves a puppet from it and names it Pinocchio. No sooner can he walk than the puppet runs away. Back at the house, he silences the talking cricket, who has come to reproach him for his disobedience and laziness. Sent to school, he sells his primer to get into the puppet theatre.
Context
The story first appeared as a serial in the Giornale per i bambini, from July 1881, under the title Storia di un burattino. The serial broke off at the fifteenth chapter on the hanging of the puppet, then resumed in February 1882 at the request of readers. The volume appeared in February 1883 in Florence from Felice Paggi, in thirty-six chapters, with illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti.
Who it is for
Thirty-six short chapters. The original text is darker and funnier than its adaptations, beginning with Disney's.
Prizes and reception
Translated into some two hundred and sixty languages, it is among the most translated books in the world.
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