Among the 35 Armenian stories gathered in this collection, you can find simple children's stories, "classic" stories about emperors, princesses and dragons, and those that were created on the basis of even older legends or Christian traditions.
The novel represents Tolstoy's adaptation of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi; he got the idea for the novel as a child, when he was read only the first part of the book, so he invented the rest himself.
Do you know that the Bible is the most read book in the world, that it has been translated into all languages and that millions of copies of that book are sold every year?