The Adventures of Pinocchio Collodi narrative while others treat the story more freely. There are at least fourteen English-language films based on the story (see also: The Adventures of Pinocchio), not to mention the Italian, French, Russian, German, Japanese and many other versions for the big screen and for television, and several musical adaptations. The Adventures of Pinocchio The Adventures of Pinocchio ( ; ), also simply known as Pinocchio, is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It
The Adventures of Harry Richmond Courtney, writing in the "Fortnightly Review" in 1886, complained: On the other hand Arthur Symons found it "rousing, enthralling, exciting, full of poetry, and a serious and masterly study in character", and Max Beerbohm enthused: "What a book! What swiftness and beauty and strength! It is the flight of a young golden eagle high across seas and mountains." Gore Vidal claimed that Mark Twain enjoyed and "stole" the characters of the Duke and the Dauphin in "Huckleberry Finn" from "Harry Richmond", and noted: The Adventures of Harry Richmond The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1870–71) is a romance by British author