Pinocchio: The Complete Translation with Illustrations

Author: (Italian) Collodi
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book describes the transformation of the puppet Pinocchio from a willful, mischievous, lazy, lying, indifferent, uninterested-in-study, and play-loving puppet into a polite, studious, hardworking, respectful-to-elders, and caring child, as well as the series of adventures he experiences, filled with childhood charm and imagination. Pinocchio is the masterpiece of the 19th-century Italian children's writer 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 one of the finest 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. 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 Zishi 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 one of the foreign literary works translated into the most minority languages in China.