Pinocchio (Annotated)

Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio is far more than a children's fantasy about a wooden puppet who longs to become a real boy. First serialized in 1881–83 as The Adventures of Pinocchio, it fuses fairy tale, moral fable, picaresque adventure, and social satire. Its brisk, episodic style, alternately comic and severe, reflects the didactic tradition of nineteenth-century children's literature while also exp...