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Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg.
Pinocchio, an endearing scamp, is always getting himself into trouble.
But it isn't the sort of trouble most kids get into.
Skiving off school, he is kidnapped by a puppeteer, robbed by a Cat and Fox, and persuaded to visit an earthly paradise where naughty children have perpetual fun - and turn into donkeys.
Sold to a circus, then to a man who tries to drown him for his donkey-skin, he miraculously turns back into a puppet and goes in search of his 'father' (whom he must rescue from the belly of a giant dogfish ...).
Throughout these manic adventures he is haunted by the ghost of a Talking Cricket he has crushed to death for giving good advice, and watched over by his personal guardian fairy.
All the while, Pinocchio dreams of becoming a real boy.
Told with wit and humour, his story is also a moral fable about making the right choices, and what it is to be a loving human being. Pinocchio is an astonishing work of fantasy which has been toned down and sentimentalized over the years, not least by the Walt Disney film.
Everyman returns to a beautifully illustrated early translation of 1916 which captures the vivid inventiveness of Collodi's original.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 8 colour plates, 32 line drawings
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:07/10/2010
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- ISBN:9781857155167
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 8 colour plates, 32 line drawings
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:07/10/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781857155167
