The adventures of Pinocchio /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
[2009]
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. How it happened that Master Cherry, a carpenter, found a piece of wood that cried and laughed like a little boy
- 2. Master Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friend Geppetto, who wants to make it into an amazing puppet that can dance and fence and do flips
- 3. Back home, Geppetto immediately begins work on his puppet, which he names Pinocchio. The puppet's first pranks
- 4. The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, which shows that naughty children can't stand to be corrected by those who know best
- 5. Pinocchio gets hungry and finds an egg to make an omelet with, but at the last second the omelet flies away, out the window
- 6. Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet propped on the brazier, and the next morning he finds that his feet have burnt off
- 7. Poor Geppetto comes home and gives the puppet the breakfast he had brought for himself
- 8. Geppetto makes Pinocchio a new pair of feet and sells his own coat to buy him a spelling book
- 9. Pinocchio sells his spelling book in order to go see the Great Puppet Show
- 10. The puppets recognize Pinocchio as their brother and welcome him raucously; but when the puppet master shows up, Pinocchio is in danger of meeting a tragic end
- 11. Fire-Eater sneezes and forgives Pinocchio, who then saves his friend Harlequin from death
- 12. Fire-Eater gives Pinocchio five gold pieces to take to his father, Geppetto. But Pinocchio is duped by the Fox and the Cat and goes off with them instead
- 13. The Red Crayfish Inn
- 14. Because he ignored the Talking Cricket's good advice, Pinocchio runs into murderers
- 15. The murderers chase Pinocchio, and when they catch him they hang him from a branch of the Big Oak
- 16. The Beautiful Girl with Sky-Blue Hair has the puppet taken down. She puts him to bed, and calls in three doctors to learn if he's alive or dead
- 17. Pinocchio eats the sugar, but won't take the purgative until he sees the gravediggers coming to carry him away. Then he tells a lie and, as punishment, his nose grows longer
- 18. Pinocchio again encounters the Fox and the Cat and goes with them to plant his four coins in the Field of Miracles
- 19. Pinocchio is robbed of his gold coins and, as punishment, gets four months in jail
- 20. Freed from jail, he tries to return to the Fairy's house, but along the way he encounters a terrible Serpent, and after that he gets caught in a snare
- 21. Pinocchio is seized by a farmer and made to serve as a watchdog outside a henhouse
- 22. Pinocchio thwarts the thieves and as a reward for being faithful is granted his liberty
- 23. Pinocchio mourns the death of the Beautiful Girl with Sky-Blue Hair. Then he meets a Pigeon who carries him to the sea, where he dives into the water to try to rescue Geppetto
- 24. Pinocchio reaches Busy-Bee Island and finds the Fairy with Sky-Blue Hair again
- 25. Pinocchio promises the Fairy that he'll be good and to study, because he's tired of being a puppet and wants to become a good boy
- 26. Pinocchio goes to the seashore with his schoolmates to see the terrible Shark
- 27. A great fight between Pinocchio and his schoolmates; one gets wounded, and the police arrest Pinocchio
- 28. Pinocchio is in danger of being fried up in a skillet, like a fish
- 29. Pinocchio returns to the house of the Fairy, who promises him that the next day he will cease to be a puppet and become a boy, A big breakfast is planned to celebrate this great event
- 30. Instead of becoming a boy, Pinocchio sneaks off with his friend Lampwick to Toyland
- 31. After five months of nonstop fun, Pinocchio wakes up one morning to a rather nasty surprise
- 32. Pinocchio is amazed to discover a fine pair of donkey ears sprouting from his head. He turns into a donkey, tail and all, and begins to bray
- 33. Now a real donkey, Pinocchio is taken to market and sold to the Ringmaster of a circus, who wants to teach him to dance and jump through hoops. But one evening he becomes lame and so is sold to another man who wants to make a drum out of his hide
- 34. Thrown into the sea, Pinocchio is eaten by fish and becomes a puppet again. But as he is swimming to safety, he is swallowed up by the terrible Shark
- 35. Inside the Shark's belly, Pinocchio is reunited with
- with whom? Read this chapter to find out
- 36. At last Pinocchio ceases to be a puppet and becomes a boy.