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Subject(s)

• Pinocchio (Fictitious character)—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Puppets—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Fairy tales [Browse]

Translator

• Lawson Lucas, Ann [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford World's Classics

Summary note

• The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. This new translation does full justice to the vibrancy and wit of Collodi's original. Far more sophisticated, funny, and hard-hitting than the many abridged versions (and the sentimentalized film) of the story would suggest, Ann Lawson Lucas's translation captures the complexity of Collodi's word-play, slapstickhumour, and immediacy of dialogue.
• The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. This new translation does full justice to the vibrancy and wit of Collodi's original. Far more sophisticated, funny, and hard-hitting than the many abridged versions (and the sentimentalized film) of the story would suggest, Ann Lawson Lucas's translation captures the complexity of Collodi's word-play, slapstick humour, and immediacy of dialogue.

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Contents

• Chapter I: How maestro Cherry, a carpenter, found apiece of wood which laughed and cried like a child
• Chapter II: How maestro Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friend, Old Joe, who wants to make it into a wonderful puppet able to dance, fence and do somersaults
• Chapter III: How Old Joe, having reached home, begins at once to make the puppet and gives him the name Pinocchio. The puppet’s first pranks
• Chapter IV: The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, which shows that naughty boys get bored with being corrected by those who know more than they do
• Chapter V: How Pinocchio gets hungry and looks for an egg to scramble; but how, when least expected, the scrambled egg flies away through the window
• Chapter VI: How Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on the hrazier, and the following morning wakes up to find his feet burnt to bits
• Chapter VII: How Old Joe comes home, and gives the puppet the breakfast that the poor man had brought for himself
• Chapter VIII: How Old Joe makes new feet for Pinocchio, and sells his own cape to buy him an alphabet book
• Chapter IX: How Pinocchio sells his alphabet book to go and see a puppet play
• Chapter X: How the puppets recognize Pinocchio as their brother, and make a great fuss of him; but how the puppeteer, Swallowfire, appears in the middle of it all and Pinocchio is in danger of coming to grief
• Chapter XI: How Swallowfire sneezes and forgives Pinocchio, who then saves his friend Harlequin from death
• Chapter XII: How the puppet-master, Swallowfire, gives five gold coins to Pinocchio to take to his papa, Old Joe; and how, instead, Pinocchio allows himself to be swindled by the Fox and the Cat and goes off with them
• Chapter XII: At the Red Lobster Inn
• Chapter XIV: How Pinocchio, because he has not heeded the good advice of the Talking Cricket, encounters the murderers
• Chapter XV: How the murderers follow Pinocchio, and having caught up with him, hang him on a branch of the Great Oak
• Chapter XVI: How the beautiful Little Girl with indigo hair has the puppet taken down, and puts him to bed, and calls three doctors to see whether he is alive or dead
• Chapter XVII: How Pinocchio eats the sugar but refuses to take his medicine; but when he sees the grave-diggers coming to take him away, then he decides to swallow it. Further, how he tells a lie and as a punishment his nose grows long
• Chapter XVIII: How Pinocchio meets the Fox and the Cat again, and goes with them to sow the four coins in the Field of Miracles
• Chapter XIX: How Pinocchio is robbed of his gold coins, and as a punishment gets four months in gaol
• Chapter XX: How, freed from prison, Pinocchio sets out to return to the Fairy’s house; but on the journey he meets a terrible Serpent, and later gets caught in a gin-trap
• Chapter XXI: How Pinocchio is caught by a peasant, who makes him take the place of the guard-dog for his hen-house
• Chapter XXII: How Pinocchio exposes the thieves, and as a reward for being trustworthy is given his liberty
• Chapter XXIII: How Pinocchio grieves for the death of the beautiful Little Girl with the indigo hair; and how he then finds a Pigeon, that takes him to the seashore, and how he throws himself into the water to go to the aid of his papa, Old Joe
• Chapter XXIV: How Pinocchio arrives at the island of the ‘Busy Bees’ and finds the Fairy again
• Chapter XXV: How Pinocchio promises the Fairy to be good and to study, because he is tired of being a puppet and wants to become a good boy
• Chapter XXVI: How Pinocchio goes with his school-friends to the seashore, to see the ferocious Shark
• Chapter XXVII: How a great battle takes place between Pinocchio and his school-friends; and how, when one of them is injured, Pinocchio is arrested by the police
• XXVIII: How Pinocchio runs the risk of being fried in a frying-pan, like a fish
• Chapter XXIX: How he returns to the Fairy’s house, and she promises him that the next day he will no longer be a puppet, hut will become a boy. Grand breakfast of coffee with milk to celebrate this great event
• Chapter XXX: How, instead of becoming a boy, Pinocchio secretly goes away with his friend Candle-Wick to the ‘Land of Toys’
• Chapter XXXI: How, after five months in the land of pleasure and plenty, to his great astonishment Pinocchio finds he is growing a fine pair of ass’s ears, and he becomes a donkey, tail and all
• Chapter XXXII: How Pinocchio acquires donkey’s ears, and then turns into a real donkey and begins to bray
• Chapter XXXIII: How, having turned into a real donkey, he is taken away to be sold, and the Manager of a company of clowns buys him in order to teach him to dance and jump through hoops; but how one evening he goes lame and so is sold on to someone else, for his skin to be made into a drum
• XXIV: How Pinocchio, having been thrown into the sea, is eaten by the fishes and becomes a puppet once more, but how, while he is swimming to safety, he is swallowed by the dreaded Shark
• Chapter XXXV: How in the Shark’s body Pinocchio meets... whom does he meet once more? Read this chapter and you will find out
• Chapter XXXVII: How at last Pinocchio stops being a puppet and becomes a boy.

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ISBN

• 9780192669612 (electronic book)
• 0192669613 (electronic book)

OCLC

1255220783

Doi

• 10.1093/owc/9780199553983.001.0001

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