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The Adventures of Pinocchio (/ p ɪ ˈ n oʊ k i oʊ / ⓘ pin-OH-kee-oh; Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino [le avvenˈtuːre di piˈnɔkkjo ˈstɔːrja di um buratˈtiːno,-dj um-], i.e. "The Adventures of Pinocchio. Story of a Puppet"), commonly shortened to Pinocchio, is an 1883 children's fantasy novel by Italian ...
The children's novel The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Buratino (1936) is a free retelling of the story of Pinocchio by Russian writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. [17] Some of the adventures are derived from Collodi, but many are either omitted or added. Pinocchio does not reform himself nor becomes a real human. For Tolstoy, Pinocchio as ...
The original representation of the Land of Toys mixes the aspects of a morality tale with those of social critique.. Children (depending upon the translation of the original Italian, the novel has included both boys and girls or only boys) are lured there by the Coachman with the promise of never having to go to school or work again and being able to spend their whole time having fun, and the ...
The Fisherman deduces that Pinocchio is a kind of rare "puppet-fish" and refuses to let Pinocchio escape. When Pinocchio breaks down in despair, the Fisherman decides to fry him. Just as the Fisherman is about to lower Pinocchio into a frying pan, his cave is visited by a mastiff named Alidoro, attracted by the smell. The mastiff, upon ...
Enrico Mazzanti's illustration of Pinocchio Enrico Mazzanti (5 April 1850 in Florence – 3 September 1893 in Florence) was an Italian engineer and cartoonist, who illustrated the first edition of Carlo Collodi 's The Adventures of Pinocchio .
A 2023 Russian postage stamp depicting a statue of Buratino in Samara A 1992 Russian postage stamp depicting Buratino. Buratino (Russian: Буратино) is the main character of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1936 fairy tale The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino, which is based on the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
He pressed his hands, his shoulders, his knees, his feet, the full weight of his 6'1", 180‑pound body against the door. But his stamina wore thin, and the door swung free. Bryan cried for help. It was the middle of the day on Friday, June 10, 2005.
The Fox and the Cat illustrated by Carlo Chiostri. Pinocchio encounters the two after leaving Mangiafuoco's theatre with five gold sequins, whereupon the Fox claims to know Pinocchio's father Mister Geppetto and proposes to Pinocchio to visit the Land of Barn Owls (Paese dei Barbagianni) and thence to a 'Field of Miracles' (Il campo dei Miracoli), where coins can be grown into a money ...