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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Pinocchio (New York Review Books Classics)by: Carlo Collodi List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 853.8 EAN: 9781590172896 ISBN: 1590172892 Label: NYRB Classics Manufacturer: NYRB Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: November 18, 2008 Publisher: NYRB Classics Release Date: November 18, 2008 Studio: NYRB Classics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that bears little relation to Carlo Collodi’s splendid original. That story is of course about a puppet who, after many trials, succeeds in becoming a “real boy.” Yet it is hardly a sentimental or morally improving tale. To the contrary, Pinocchio is one of the great subversives of the written page, a madcap genius hurtled along at the pleasure and mercy of his desires, a renegade who in many ways resembles his near contemporary Huck Finn. Pinocchio the novel, no less than Pinocchio the character, is one of the great inventions of modern literature. A sublime anomaly, the book merges the traditions of the picaresque, of street theater, and of folk and fairy tales into a work that is at once adventure, satire, and a powerful enchantment that anticipates surrealism and magical realism. Thronged with memorable characters and composed with the fluid but inevitable logic of a dream, Pinocchio is an endlessly fascinating work that is essential equipment for life.
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