[Pocket Edition] World Classics Library - The Adventures of Pinocchio

Author: Carlo Collodi
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The Adventures of Pinocchio is the masterpiece of the 19th-century Italian children's literature writer Carlo Collodi, hailed as "the masterpiece of Italian children's literature" and "the most beautiful book in Italian children's literature." Additionally, it has been translated into various languages and spread across the world, remaining a bestseller and becoming one of the most outstanding children's literary works in the world. The protagonist, the puppet Pinocchio, has become a household name in fairy tales, and the television and animated adaptations based on the book have also been warmly received by audiences worldwide. The Adventures of Pinocchio is one of the most widely circulated and influential world children's classics in China. In the 1930s and 1940s, translation pioneers such as Zhang Shenbo and Xu Baishi once translated this masterpiece. The book has also won the love of ethnic minority readers in China, having been successively published in Mongolian, Kazakh, Korean, Uyghur, and other languages, becoming the foreign literary work translated into the most minority languages in China. Globally, apart from the Bible and the Quran, The Adventures of Pinocchio is the work with the most readers and the highest sales. — Italian scholar Daniela Maccagno