Name: The Adventures of Pinocchio
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Author: Collodi, Carlo ; Hooper, John ; Kraczyna, Anna
ISBN: 9780143136095

Type

Physical Book

Author

Translated by

Publisher

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3 x 13.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9780143136095

Synopsis "The Adventures of Pinocchio"

A revelatory new annotated edition of the most translated Italian book in the world--the basis for two new major motion pictures: a Netflix animated version co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton, and a Disney Plus live-action version directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lorraine Bracco, and Keegan-Michael Key A Penguin Classic Carved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and immediately starts to misbehave. But while this beloved character has achieved literary immortality, the novel has been widely misunderstood. Pinocchio has a penchant for lying, to be sure, but it's when he avoids going to school that he repeatedly gets into trouble. The Adventures of Pinocchio is thus not a cautionary tale about lying but an unusually timely fable for our increasingly authoritarian times--a story about the importance of education and of preventing others from pulling our strings. This effervescent new translation captures the antic spirit that makes the mischievous, egotistical, and easily distracted Pinocchio a late nineteenth-century prototype for the likes of Bart Simpson. Featuring copious annotations informed by the translators' deep knowledge of Italy, it reveals the novel to be not only a subversively entertaining children's book but also a sophisticated satire reflecting the author's concern for the social inequality of his time and his belief that duty to others is at the core of our humanity. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Carlo Collodi

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Carlo Lorenzo Filippo Giovanni Lorenzini (Florencia, 24 de noviembre de 1826 - Ib., 26 de octubre de 1890), más conocido como Carlo Collodi o simplemente Collodi, fue un periodista y escritor italiano, conocido por su novela Las aventuras de Pinocho.

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