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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
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Description for The Adventures of Pinocchio
Paperback. Translator(s): Lucas, Ann Lawson. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages, original illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 195 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a dogfish, before he gains real happiness. This new translation does full justice to the vibrancy and wit of Collodi's original. Far more ... Read more
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a dogfish, before he gains real happiness. This new translation does full justice to the vibrancy and wit of Collodi's original. Far more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199553983
SKU
V9780199553983
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4
About Carlo Collodi
Ann Lawson Lucas is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Hull.
Reviews for The Adventures of Pinocchio
It is precisely by virtue of its extremely rich literary stratification paried with vivid realism that The Adventures of Pinocchio remain to this day enormously readable and enjoyable. This is a more than extraordinary achievement. - Katia Pizzi. Italian Studies. 1998. 'an authoritative new translation ... sets new standards for the English text'
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