The Adventures of Pinocchio

By: C. Collodi

Everyone knows the story of Pinocchio, the marionette who becomes a real boy. Inbetween, Pinocchio is a bit of a scamp; not going to school, disobeying his father, etc. It's also a lot darker than I had previously thought. The talking cricket? Pinocchio kills him. He also bites the head off a cat and depressingly enough, in Chapter 15, he gets hung from a tree. That, apparently, is where the story should have ended. When Pinocchio was first serialised, that was indeed Collodi's ending. It was only at the request of his editor that Chapters 16-36 were added along with the whole 'turning into a real boy'. Even so, it's not your typical fairy tale. It's set in a real world, of hunger, poverty and death. Still an enjoyable book and well worth a read, if only to rid yourselves of the Disneyfied version you probably grew up with.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1533386587
• ISBN13: 9781533386588
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"