Ozma of Oz E-Book

L. Frank Baum

• Herausgeber: Passerino Editore
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

"Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein" published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books. 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.

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ISBN: 9788893450836

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Table of contents

Author's Note

1. The Girl in the Chicken Coop

​2. The Yellow Hen

​3. Letters in the Sand

4. Tiktok the Machine Man

​5. Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail

​6. The Heads of Langwidere

​7. Ozma of Oz to the Rescue

​8. The Hungry Tiger

9. The Royal Family of Ev

​10. The Giant with the Hammer

​11. The Nome King

12. The Eleven Guesses

13. The Nome King Laughs

​14. Dorothy Tries to be Brave

​15. Billina Frightens the Nome King

​16. Purple, Green, and Gold

17. The Scarecrow Wins the Fight

​18. The Fate of the Tin Woodman

​19. The King of Ev

​20. The Emerald City

​21. Dorothy's Magic Belt

Credits

Ozma of Oz

*

A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of

Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin

Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and

the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good

People too Numerous to Mention

Faithfully Recorded Herein

*

by

L. Frank Baum

(1907)

Author's Note

My friends the children are responsible for this new "Oz Book," as they were for the last one, which was called The Land of Oz. Their sweet little letters plead to know "more about Dorothy"; and they ask: "What became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do afterward?"--meaning, of course, after she became the Ruler of Oz. And some of them suggest plots to me, saying: "Please have Dorothy go to the Land of Oz again"; or, "Why don't you make Ozma and Dorothy meet, and have a good time together?" Indeed, could I do all that my little friends ask, I would be obliged to write dozens of books to satisfy their demands. And I wish I could, for I enjoy writing these stories just as much as the children say they enjoy reading them.

Well, here is "more about Dorothy," and about our old friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and about the Cowardly Lion, and Ozma, and all the rest of them; and here, likewise, is a good deal about some new folks that are queer and unusual. One little friend, who read this story before it was printed, said to me: "Billina is REAL OZZY, Mr. Baum, and so are Tiktok and the Hungry Tiger."

If this judgment is unbiased and correct, and the little folks find this new story "real Ozzy," I shall be very glad indeed that I wrote it. But perhaps I shall get some more of those very welcome letters from my readers, telling me just how they like "Ozma of Oz." I hope so, anyway.

L. FRANK BAUM.

MACATAWA, 1907. 

1. The Girl in the Chicken Coop

The wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across its surface. Then the wind pushed the edges of the ripples until they became waves, and shoved the waves around until they became billows. The billows rolled dreadfully high: higher even than the tops of houses. Some of them, indeed, rolled as high as the tops of tall trees, and seemed like mountains; and the gulfs between the great billows were like deep valleys.

All this mad dashing and splashing of the waters of the big ocean, which the mischievous wind caused without any good reason whatever, resulted in a terrible storm, and a storm on the ocean is liable to cut many queer pranks and do a lot of damage.