The Adventures of Pinocchio
eBook - ePub

The Adventures of Pinocchio

  1. 79 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Adventures of Pinocchio

About this book

Beneath the Tuscan sun, a piece of enchanted firewood learns to weep. From the humble workshop of Master Cherry to the fantastical whims of the Toy Land, this is the fable of Pinocchio—a marionette who dreams not of strings and stages, but of warm blood, a beating heart, and the name of boy. Yet Collodi offers no saccharine idyll. His woodland is rife with assassins—a crafty Fox and a lisping Cat—whose flattery masks cruelty. His Blue Fairy possesses a grave, conditional mercy. And Pinocchio himself, stubborn, credulous, and thrillingly alive, stumbles from lie to lie, each falsehood lengthening his penitent nose into a arboreal monument to self-deception. Part picaresque adventure, part moral anatomy, Pinocchio is a book of astonishing darkness and tenderness. It speaks to the child who hungers for freedom without responsibility, and to the adult who knows that transformation demands suffering, remorse, and the slow, difficult work of the heart. Far removed from the pastels of later adaptations, Collodi's original is a razor wrapped in a fairy tale—a story about becoming human, and the many ways we fail along the way. For the discerning reader, this is no mere children's book. It is a philosophical puppet show, where wood learns to choose, and where a puppet's greatest adventure is the painful, luminous act of growing a soul.

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Information

Publisher
Cactus
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9791256798773
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CHAPTER I
  3. CHAPTER II
  4. CHAPTER III
  5. CHAPTER IV
  6. CHAPTER V
  7. CHAPTER VI
  8. CHAPTER VII
  9. CHAPTER VIII
  10. CHAPTER IX
  11. CHAPTER X
  12. CHAPTER XI
  13. CHAPTER XII
  14. CHAPTER XIII
  15. CHAPTER XIV
  16. CHAPTER XV
  17. CHAPTER XVI
  18. CHAPTER XVII
  19. CHAPTER XVIII
  20. CHAPTER XIX
  21. CHAPTER XX
  22. CHAPTER XXI
  23. CHAPTER XXII
  24. CHAPTER XXIII
  25. CHAPTER XXIV
  26. CHAPTER XXV
  27. CHAPTER XXVI
  28. CHAPTER XXVII
  29. CHAPTER XXVIII
  30. CHAPTER XXIX
  31. CHAPTER XXX
  32. CHAPTER XXXI
  33. CHAPTER XXXII
  34. CHAPTER XXXIII
  35. CHAPTER XXXIV
  36. CHAPTER XXXV
  37. CHAPTER XXXVI

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