"Pinocchio" By Carlo Collodi

Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet / by Carlo Collodi ; illustrated by Alice Carsey

Racine, Wisconsin : Whitman Publishing Company, c1916

The adventures of Pinocchio : story of a puppet / Carlo Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini) ; translated, with an introductory essay and notes by Nicolas J. Perella

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986

Everyman's Library

Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was born in Florence, Italy on this day in 1826.

“Lies, my dear boy, are found out immediately, because they are of two sorts. There are lies that have short legs, and lies that have long noses. Your lie, as it happens, is one of those that have a long nose.”
― from "Pinocchio" By Carlo Collodi

The original, unabridged Pinocchio in a beautifully illustrated hardcover edition. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 story is an astonishing work of fantasy, even richer and more wildly imaginative than the famous film that Disney made of it. The Everyman’s edition—the only one in hardcover—brings back the color-illustrated translation of 1916 that captures the vivid inventiveness of Collodi’s original. Here is the endearing wooden puppet, always dreaming of becoming a boy and always tumbling into trouble: kidnapped, robbed by a cat and a fox, turned into a donkey, escaping from an enormous smoking serpent and a green-skinned ogre, rescuing his father from the belly of a mile-long fish, haunted by the ghost of a talking cricket, watched over by a fairy with turquoise hair, and, time and again, betrayed by his lie-sensitive nose.