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The adventures of pinocchioclassic children’s novel written by C. Collodi that first appeared in serial form in 1881 in the Giornale dei bambini (“Children’s Magazine”) and was published as a book in 1883, adventures of pinocchio the story of the little marionette who wants to be a real boy, and it is perhaps best known as the basis for the 1940 Disney film.Adventures of pinocchio by carlo collodi 1946Pinocchio wants to go to school, and Geppetto sells his own coat to buy schoolbooks. Pinocchio ditches school to join a Marionette theater, but they try to use him for firewood. He then escapes and runs home. On his way he meets Fox and Cat, who convince him that he can turn his pocket change into a great fortune. However, they abandon him after he pays for their evening meal. Disguised as assassins, Fox and Cat chase Pinocchio down. When Pinocchio refuses to give up his change, they hang him on a noose from a tree.

Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. (pinocchio story) The Adventures of Pinocchio is a story about an animated marionette, boys who turn into donkeys and other fairy tale devices that would be familiar to a reader of Alice in Wonderland or the Brothers Grimm. However, Pinocchio's world is not in a traditional fairy-tale world, instead containing the hard realities of the need for food, shelter and the basic measures of daily life. In fact, the setting of the story is the very real Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary melding of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name. In the 1850s, Collodi began to have a variety of both fiction and non-fiction books published. Once, he translated some French fairy-tales so well that he was asked whether he would like to write some of his own. In 1881, he sent a short episode in the life of a wooden puppet to a friend who edited a newspaper in Rome, wondering whether the editor would be interested in publishing this "bit of foolishness" in his children's section. The editor did, and the children loved it. The adventures of Pinocchio were serialized in the paper in 1881-2, and then published in 1883 with huge success.[1] In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death: hanged for his innumerable faults, at the end of Chapter 15. At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16–36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair (or "Blue Fairy", as the Disney version names her) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story more suitable for children. In the second half of the book, the maternal figure of the Blue-haired Fairy is the dominant character, versus the paternal figure of Geppetto in the first part. Children's literature was a new idea in Collodi's time, an innovation in the 19th century. Thus in content and style it was new and modern, opening the way to many writers of the following century. The story begins in Tuscany as Antonio the carpenter begins to carve a leg for his table from a piece of pine wood. However, the log shouts out, "Don't strike me too hard!" Frightened, he does not know what to do until his neighbour Geppetto, drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette. Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. As Geppetto carves the puppet, the nose begins to grow. Geppetto is poor and wants to make a living as a puppeteer. He carves the block into a boy he names "Pinocchio". As soon as his nose is carved, it begins to grow longer and longer. When he is finished, Geppetto teaches Pinocchio to walk, whereupon he runs out the door and into town. He is caught by a Carabiniere, but when people say that Geppetto dislikes children, the carabiniere assumes that Pinocchio has been mistreated and imprisons Geppetto. Alone, Pinocchio goes back to Geppetto's house. Unable to find food, he goes in the middle of the night to a neighbor's house to beg for food. The annoyed neighbor pours a basin of water on him from an upstairs window. Freezing, Pinocchio returns home and tries to warm himself by placing his feet upon the stove. The next morning he wakes to find that his feet have burned off. Geppetto, who has been released from jail and has three pears for a meal, makes him a new pair of feet and clothes to wear. In gratitude, Pinocchio promises to go to school. Since Geppetto has no money to buy a school book (Abbecedario), he sells his only coat. Pinocchio Pinocchio is a naughty, pine-wood marionette who gains wisdom through a series of misadventures which lead him to becoming a real human as reward for his good deeds.

The Adventures of Pinocchio, also simply known as Pinocchio, is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.It was originally published in a serial form as The Story of a Puppet (Italian: La storia di un burattino) in the Giornale per i bambini, one of the earliest Italian weekly magazines for children, starting from 7 July 1881. The story stopped after nearly 4 months and 8 episodes at Chapter 15, but by popular demand from readers, the episodes were resumed on 16 February 1882. In February 1883, the story was published in a single book. Since then, the spread of Pinocchio on the main markets for children's book of the time was continuous and uninterrupted, and it was met with enthusiastic reviews worldwide.A universal icon and a metaphor of the human condition, the book is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has had great impact on world culture. Philosopher Benedetto Croce reputed it as one of the greatest works of Italian literature. Since its first publication, it has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising, television series and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version, and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose.According to extensive research done by the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi in the late 1990s and based on UNESCO sources, the book has been adapted in over 260 languages worldwide, while as of 2018 it has been translated into over 300 languages. That makes it the most translated non-religious book in the world and one of the best-selling books ever published, with over 80 million copies sold in recent years (the total sales since its first publication are unknown because of the many public domain re-releases begun in 1940). According to Francelia Butler, it remains "the most translated Italian book and, after the Bible, the most widely read"