The Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi · 1883 CE · Novel · Italian · Victorian

A block of firewood cries out before anyone has carved it, and the puppet the poor Geppetto makes from it bolts the moment its feet will work. Hunger, a fox and a cat with designs on four gold pieces, a cricket nobody listens to, a court that jails the swindled man, and a fairground for boys who refuse school each take a turn at him. Collodi's Tuscan serial is harsher, funnier and far more anticlerical than the versions that followed it.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Tales of Mother Goose
  Charles Perrault · c. 1697 CE · Folktale
• ↓ Pinocchio
  Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen · 1940 CE · Film — adapts this

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