內容簡介
Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets.Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse."Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" was the fourth Oz adventure. First published in 1908, it has captured the imaginations of young readers and listeners for four generations. Now a new generation can discover these superb adventures for themselves. This deluxe gift edition faithfully reproduces the rare first edition, including all sixteen color plates and all fifty black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill, as well as the original colorful endpapers.Afterword by Peter Glassman. A deluxe facsimile of the fourth Oz adventure--originally published in 1908--when Dorothy and the Wizard meet the Mangaboos. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.
作者簡介
L. Frank Baum, Writer, born in Chittenango, New York, USA. A sickly child, he studied at home, became an actor (1870s), worked in the family oil business, then moved to South Dakota. While working as a journalist there, he wrote his first book, Father Goose: His Book, published in 1899 after he had moved to Chicago to work on a trade magazine for window decorators. It proved a success; but his next book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), was even more successful, and he adapted it for the musical stage in 1901. After travelling to Europe, he settled in Pasadena, CA (1902), where he turned out 13 more books in the Oz series and many other children's stories, mostly in the fantasy genre, using pen names such as Schuyler Staunton, Laura Bancroft, Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, Suzanne Metcalfe, Floyd Akens, and Edith Van Dyne. Although appreciated primarily as children's tales, the Oz books have also been read as incorporating Baum's views on American society.
萊曼·弗蘭剋·鮑姆(Lyman Frank Baum,1856年5月15日-1919年5月6日),美國作傢、演員、報紙編輯,也曾是獨立電影的電影監製。他生於紐約州,父親是個桶匠,後來到賓夕法尼亞州開采石油並發瞭財。鮑姆的童年是在父親的大莊園裏度過的,他從小體弱多病,受到傢人的特彆關照。他對童話和幻想故事的迷戀幾乎到瞭“白日夢”的程度,父母很擔心這會影響他的性格發展,決心送他去軍校。軍校的嚴謹生活並沒有改善他的性格,隻導緻他精神崩潰。父母隻好把他從軍校接迴傢,任由他發展自己的興趣。
《綠野仙蹤》(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,1900年,又譯為《神秘歐茲國》、《奧茲國之偉大巫師》)是他最有名的美國兒童文學著作。此書後被改編為電影《綠野仙蹤》(1939年)。在《綠野仙蹤》大受歡迎之後,陸續創作奧茲國相關係列作品14本。
他的第一本童話著作是《鵝媽媽故事集》(Mother Goose in Prose,1897年),一生共有約60部著作。
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