Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz E-Book

L. Frank Baum

• Herausgeber: Passerino Editore
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

"Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known by his pen name L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Leseprobe

L. Frank Baum

The Sky is the limit

ISBN: 9788893450935

This ebook was created with StreetLib Write (http://write.streetlib.com)by Simplicissimus Book Farm

Table of contents

​To My Readers

1. The Earthquake

2. The Glass City

3. The Arrival Of The Wizard

4. The Vegetable Kingdom

​5. Dorothy Picks the Princess

​6. The Mangaboos Prove Dangerous

​7. Into the Black Pit and Out Again

​8. The Valley of Voices

​9. They Fight the Invisible Bears

​10. The Braided Man of Pyramid Mountain

11. They Meet the Wooden Gargoyles

​12. A Wonderful Escape

13. The Den of the Dragonettes

​14. Ozma Uses the Magic Belt

15. Old Friends are Reunited

​16. Jim, The Cab-Horse

​17. The Nine Tiny Piglets

​18. The Trial of Eureka the Kitten

​19. The Wizard Performs Another Trick

​20. Zeb Returns to the Ranch

L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

*

1908

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

A Faithful Record of Their Amazing Adventures

in an Underground World; and How with the

Aid of Their Friends Zeb Hugson, Eureka

the Kitten, and Jim the Cab-Horse,

They Finally Reached the

Wonderful Land

of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"Royal Historian of Oz"

​To My Readers

It's no use; no use at all. The children won't let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell them, some time or another; but just now my loving tyrants won't allow me. They cry: "Oz--Oz! more about Oz, Mr. Baum!" and what can I do but obey their commands?

This is Our Book--mine and the children's. For they have flooded me with thousands of suggestions in regard to it, and I have honestly tried to adopt as many of these suggestions as could be fitted into one story.

After the wonderful success of "Ozma of Oz" it is evident that Dorothy has become a firm fixture in these Oz stories. The little ones all love Dorothy, and as one of my small friends aptly states: "It isn't a real Oz story without her." So here she is again, as sweet and gentle and innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange adventure.

There were many requests from my little correspondents for "more about the Wizard." It seems the jolly old fellow made hosts of friends in the first Oz book, in spite of the fact that he frankly acknowledged himself "a humbug." The children had heard how he mounted into the sky in a balloon and they were all waiting for him to come down again. So what could I do but tell "what happened to the Wizard afterward"? You will find him in these pages, just the same humbug Wizard as before.

L. FRANK BAUM

Coronado, 1908.

1. The Earthquake

The train from 'Frisco was very late. It should have arrived at Hugson's Siding at midnight, but it was already five o'clock and the gray dawn was breaking in the east when the little train slowly rumbled up to the open shed that served for the station-house. As it came to a stop the conductor called out in a loud voice:

"Hugson's Siding!"

At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm. The conductor helped her off the car and then the engineer started his train again, so that it puffed and groaned and moved slowly away up the track. The reason he was so late was because all through the night there were times when the solid earth shook and trembled under him, and the engineer was afraid that at any moment the rails might spread apart and an accident happen to his passengers. So he moved the cars slowly and with caution.