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Meet the Book
PINOCCHIO
“Centuries ago there lived — ‘A king!’ my little readers will say immediately. No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.”
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From the Middle — The Nose That Grew
PINOCCHIO
Pinocchio has told a lie to the Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair — and his nose, traitor that it is, grows longer and longer before her eyes, until he cannot turn his head in the room. Collodi wastes no moral: you hear it happen.
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What’s Inside
- Chapters 1–24 complete — the first half of Collodi’s tale, entire: Mastro Cherry’s wood, Geppetto, the Talking Cricket, Fire Eater’s theater, the Fox and the Cat, the Field of Wonders, and the Island of the Busy Bees.
- 2 hours 51 minutes of narration — Pinocchio himself stands in golden light in the corner of the stage while the story is read aloud.
- The book’s own plates — the theater, the nose, the Green Fisherman, the shark — set with their chapters.
- Volume Two stands on the same shelf — the last twelve chapters, and the boy.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio is Carlo Collodi’s tale (1883) in the classic English translation, long in the public domain — the original words untouched. The narration is a performed reading made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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