Pinocchio By Carlo Collodi And Illustrated By Fulvio Testa

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._x000D_

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Introduction by Umberto Eco_x000D_

Translated by Geoffrey Brock_x000D_

Illustrated by Fulvio Testa