«The Adventures of Pinocchio» in English with a Parallel Translation

The story is a fantastic fairy tale, in which there are many mystical and fairy-tale characters, including a talking cricket (which in the Disney version of the story becomes Jiminy cricket), talking animals, Harlequin, a popular entertainment in Italy at that time, and a fairy who is the spirit of the forest and in many ways acts as a guardian angel of Pinocchio when he gets into trouble.