The Tin Woodman of Oz E-Book

L. Frank Baum

• Herausgeber: Publisher s24148
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood.

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The Tin Woodman of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum

 Published by OPU, 2017

Table of Contents

The Tin Woodman of Oz

Part 1 To My Readers

Part 2 The Tin Woodman of Oz

Chapter 1 Woot the Wanderer

Chapter 2 The Heart of the Tin Woodman

Chapter 3 Roundabout

Chapter 4 The Loons of Loonville

Chapter 5 Mrs. Yoop, the Giantess

Chapter 6 The Magic of a Yookoohoo

Chapter 7 The Lace Apron

Chapter 8 The Menace of the Forest

Chapter 9 The Quarrelsome Dragons

Chapter 10 Tommy Kwikstep

Chapter 11 Jinjur's Ranch

Chapter 12 Ozma and Dorothy

Chapter 13 The Restoration

Chapter 14 The Green Monkey

Chapter 15 The Man of Tin

Chapter 16 Captain Fyter

Chapter 17 The Workshop of Ku-Klip

Chapter 18 The Tin Woodman Talks to Himself

Chapter 19 The Invisible Country

Chapter 20 Over Night

Chapter 21 Polychrome's Magic

Chapter 22 Nimmie Amee

Chapter 23 Through the Tunnel

Chapter 24 The Curtain Falls

This Book is dedicated to the son of my son

Frank Alden Baum

Part 1 To My Readers

I know that some of you have been waiting for this story of the Tin Woodman, because many of my correspondents have asked me, time and again what ever became of the "pretty Munchkin girl" whom Nick Chopper was engaged to marry before the Wicked Witch enchanted his axe and he traded his flesh for tin. I, too, have wondered what became of her, but until Woot the Wanderer interested himself in the matter the Tin Woodman knew no more than we did. However, he found her, after many thrilling adventures, as you will discover when you have read this story.

I am delighted at the continued interest of both young and old in the Oz stories. A learned college professor recently wrote me to ask: "For readers of what age are your books intended?" It puzzled me to answer that properly, until I had looked over some of the letters I have received. One says: "I'm a little boy 5 years old, and I Just love your Oz stories. My sister, who is writing this for me, reads me the Oz books, but I wish I could read them myself." Another letter says: "I'm a great girl 13 years old, so you'll be surprised when I tell you I am not too old yet for the Oz stories." Here's another letter: "Since I was a young girl I've never missed getting a Baum book for Christmas. I'm married, now, but am as eager to get and read the Oz stories as ever." And still another writes: "My good wife and I, both more than 70 years of age, believe that we find more real enjoyment in your Oz books than in any other books we read." Considering these statements, I wrote the college professor that my books are intended for all those whose hearts are young, no matter what their ages may be.

I think I am justified in promising that there will be some astonishing revelations about The Magic of Oz in my book for 1919. Always your loving and grateful friend,

L. FRANK BAUM.

Royal Historian of Oz.

"OZCOT"

at HOLLYWOOD in CALIFORNIA

1918.

Part 2 The Tin Woodman of Oz

Chapter1 Woot the Wanderer

The Tin Woodman sat on his glittering tin throne in the handsome tin hall of his splendid tin castle in the Winkie Country of the Land of Oz. Beside him, in a chair of woven straw, sat his best friend, the Scarecrow of Oz. At times they spoke to one another of curious things they had seen and strange adventures they had known since first they two had met and become comrades. But at times they were silent, for these things had been talked over many times between them, and they found themselves contented in merely being together, speaking now and then a brief sentence to prove they were wide awake and attentive. But then, these two quaint persons never slept. Why should they sleep, when they never tired?

And now, as the brilliant sun sank low over the Winkie Country of Oz, tinting the glistening tin towers and tin minarets of the tin castle with glorious sunset hues, there approached along a winding pathway Woot the Wanderer, who met at the castle entrance a Winkie servant.