Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
目录:
Chapter Ⅰ. The Cyclone /1 Chapter Ⅱ. The Council with The Munchkins /9 Chapter Ⅲ. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow /21 Chapter Ⅳ. The Road Through the Forest /33 Chapter Ⅴ. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman /43 Chapter Ⅵ. The Cowardly Lion /55 Chapter Ⅶ. The Journey to The Great Oz /65 Chapter Ⅷ. The Deadly Poppy Field /77 Chapter Ⅸ. The Queen of the Field Mice /89 Chapter Ⅹ. The Guardian of the Gates /99 Chapter Ⅺ. The Emerald City of Oz /111 Chapter Ⅻ. The Search for the Wicked Witch /129 Chapter XIII. The Rescue /149 Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys /157 Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible /169 Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug /185 Chapter XVII. How the Balloon was Launched /193 Chapter XVIII. Away to the South /201 Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees /209 Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country /217 Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts /227 Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings /233 Chapter XXIII. The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish /241 Chapter XXIV. Home Again /248
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