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- Herausgeber: Diamond Book Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
The Lost Princess of Oz is the eleventh Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. it begins with the disappearance of Princess Ozma, the ruler of Oz and covers Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her. The introduction to the book states that its inspiration was a letter a little girl had written to Baum: "I suppose if Ozma ever got hurt or losted, everybody would be sorry."
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A Children's Classic
Table of contents
TO MY READERS
CHAPTER 1. A TERRIBLE LOSS
By
L. Frank Baum
Table of Contents
TO MY READERS
CHAPTER 1. A TERRIBLE LOSS
CHAPTER 2. THE TROUBLES OF GLINDA THE GOOD
CHAPTER 3. THE ROBBERY OF CAYKE THE COOKIE COOK
CHAPTER 4. AMONG THE WINKIES
CHAPTER 5. OZMA'S FRIENDS ARE PERPLEXED
CHAPTER 6. THE SEARCH PARTY
CHAPTER 7. THE MERRY-GO-ROUND MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER 8. THE MYSTERIOUS CITY
CHAPTER 9. THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI
CHAPTER 10. TOTO LOSES SOMETHING
CHAPTER 11. BUTTON-BRIGHT LOSES HIMSELF
CHAPTER 12. THE CZAROVER OF HERKU
CHAPTER 13. THE TRUTH POND
CHAPTER 14. THE UNHAPPY FERRYMAN
CHAPTER 15. THE BIG LAVENDER BEAR
CHAPTER 16. THE LITTLE PINK BEAR
CHAPTER 17. THE MEETING
CHAPTER 18. THE CONFERENCE
CHAPTER 19. UGU THE SHOEMAKER
CHAPTER 20. MORE SURPRISES
CHAPTER 21. MAGIC AGAINST MAGIC
CHAPTER 22. IN THE WICKER CASTLE
CHAPTER 23. THE DEFIANCE OF UGU THE SHOEMAKER
CHAPTER 24. THE LITTLE PINK BEAR SPEAKS TRULY
CHAPTER 25. OZMA OF OZ
CHAPTER 26. DOROTHY FORGIVES
TO MY READERS
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams—day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing—are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.
Among the letters I receive from children are many containing suggestions of "what to write about in the next Oz Book." Some of the ideas advanced are mighty interesting, while others are too extravagant to be seriously considered—even in a fairy tale. Yet I like them all, and I must admit that the main idea in "The Lost Princess of Oz" was suggested to me by a sweet little girl of eleven who called to see me and to talk about the Land of Oz. Said she: "I s'pose if Ozma ever got lost, or stolen, ev'rybody in Oz would be dreadful sorry."
That was all, but quite enough foundation to build this present story on. If you happen to like the story, give credit to my little friend's clever hint.
L. Frank Baum Royal Historian of Oz
CHAPTER 1. A TERRIBLE LOSS
There could be no doubt of the fact: Princess Ozma, the lovely girl ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was lost. She had completely disappeared. Not one of her subjects—not even her closest friends—knew what had become of her. It was Dorothy who first discovered it. Dorothy was a little Kansas girl who had come to the Land of Oz to live and had been given a delightful suite of rooms in Ozma's royal palace just because Ozma loved Dorothy and wanted her to live as near her as possible so the two girls might be much together.
Dorothy was not the only girl from the outside world who had been welcomed to Oz and lived in the royal palace. There was another named Betsy Bobbin, whose adventures had led her to seek refuge with Ozma, and still another named Trot, who had been invited, together with her faithful companion Cap'n Bill, to make her home in this wonderful fairyland. The three girls all had rooms in the palace and were great chums; but Dorothy was the dearest friend of their gracious Ruler and only she at any hour dared to seek Ozma in her royal apartments. For Dorothy had lived in Oz much longer than the other girls and had been made a Princess of the realm.
Betsy was a year older than Dorothy and Trot was a year younger, yet the three were near enough of an age to become great playmates and to have nice times together. It was while the three were talking together one morning in Dorothy's room that Betsy proposed they make a journey into the Munchkin Country, which was one of the four great countries of the Land of Oz ruled by Ozma. "I've never been there yet," said Betsy Bobbin, "but the Scarecrow once told me it is the prettiest country in all Oz."
"I'd like to go, too," added Trot.
