[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpieces Library - The Adventures of Pinocchio

Author: Carlo Collodi
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
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 worldwide, remaining a bestseller and becoming one of the finest children's literary works in the world. The protagonist, the puppet Pinocchio, has become a household name in fairy tales. The television series and animated films adapted from the book have also been warmly received by audiences in countries around the world. 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 readers from ethnic minorities 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. Worldwide, 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