Length4h 7m
About this audiobook
Beneath the Tuscan sun, a piece of enchanted firewood learns to weep. From the humble workshop of Master Cherry to the fantastical whims of the Toy Land, this is the fable of Pinocchio—a marionette who dreams not of strings and stages, but of warm blood, a beating heart, and the name of boy.
Yet Collodi offers no saccharine idyll. His woodland is rife with assassins—a crafty Fox and a lisping Cat—whose flattery masks cruelty. His Blue Fairy possesses a grave, conditional mercy. And Pinocchio himself, stubborn, credulous, and thrillingly alive, stumbles from lie to lie, each falsehood lengthening his penitent nose into a arboreal monument to self-deception.
Part picaresque adventure, part moral anatomy, Pinocchio is a book of astonishing darkness and tenderness. It speaks to the child who hungers for freedom without responsibility, and to the adult who knows that transformation demands suffering, remorse, and the slow, difficult work of the heart. Far removed from the pastels of later adaptations, Collodi’s original is a razor wrapped in a fairy tale—a story about becoming human, and the many ways we fail along the way.
For the discerning reader, this is no mere children’s book. It is a philosophical puppet show, where wood learns to choose, and where a puppet’s greatest adventure is the painful, luminous act of growing a soul.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (111.7K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics, Fantasy
Length4 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
20CHAPTER XIX
2CHAPTER I
21CHAPTER XX
3CHAPTER II
22CHAPTER XXI
4CHAPTER III
23CHAPTER XXII
5CHAPTER IV
24CHAPTER XXIII
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6CHAPTER V
25CHAPTER XXIV
7CHAPTER VI
26CHAPTER XXV
8CHAPTER VII
27CHAPTER XXVI
9CHAPTER VIII
28CHAPTER XXVII
10CHAPTER IX
29CHAPTER XXVIII
11CHAPTER X
30CHAPTER XXIX
12CHAPTER XI
31CHAPTER XXX
13CHAPTER XII
32CHAPTER XXXI
14CHAPTER XIII
33CHAPTER XXXII
15CHAPTER XIV
34CHAPTER XXXIII
16CHAPTER XV
35CHAPTER XXXIV
17CHAPTER XVI
36CHAPTER XXXV
18CHAPTER XVII
37CHAPTER XXXVI
19CHAPTER XVIII
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