The Story of a Puppet, or The Adventures of Pinocchio

Collodi, Carlo

Edité par T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892

First edition in English, issued as a volume in the publisher s "The Children s Library" (our London issue precedes the nearly identical looking New York issue). Spine faded half a shade else a fine copy, beautiful, and most other copies look, by comparison, like a paper napkin after a Mexican dinner. Influential? When Pinocchio was published dozens of different Italian dialects permeated Italy, but Collodi was a lord of grammar, and the book was so popular and widely read that it unified the Italian vernacular into a single common language. A remarkable linguistic achievement that parallels what Dante's "Divine Comedy" had done centuries earlier, cementing Pinocchio as not merely a children's tale but a cornerstone of Italian cultural identity. Collodi's precise, accessible prose transcended regional boundaries at a critical moment in Italy's post-unification period, when the country was struggling to forge a cohesive national identity. N° de réf. du vendeur 1108

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Story of a Puppet, or The Adventures of ...
Éditeur : T. Fisher Unwin, London
Date d'édition : 1892
Etat : Near fine
Edition : First Edition.