The Magic of Oz E-Book

L. Frank Baum

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

Beschreibung

L. Frank Baum’s last beloved Oz book before his death, this story deals with the discovery of a powerful magic word by a young boy from Oz, who immediately is plunged head-first into adventure through his discovery.

Leseprobe

The Magic of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum

 Published by OPU, 2017

Table of Contents

The Magic of Oz

Part 1 To My Readers

Part 2 The Magic of Oz

Chapter 1 Mount Munch

Chapter 2 The Hawk

Chapter 3 Two Bad Ones

Chapter 4 Conspirators

Chapter 5 A Happy Corner of Oz

Chapter 6 Ozma's Birthday Presents

Chapter 7 The Forest of Gugu

Chapter 8 The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble

Chapter 9 The Isle of the Magic Flower

Chapter 10 Stuck Fast

Chapter 11 The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu

Chapter 12 Kiki Uses His Magic

Chapter 13 The Loss of the Black Bag

Chapter 14 The Wizard Learns the Magic Word

Chapter 15 The Lonesome Duck

Chapter 16 The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag

Chapter 17 A Remarkable Journey

Chapter 18 The Magic of the Wizard

Chapter 19 Dorothy and the Bumble Bees

Chapter 20 The Monkeys Have Trouble

Chapter 21 The College of Athletic Arts

Chapter 22 Ozma's Birthday Party

Chapter 23 The Fountain of Oblivion

Part 1 To My Readers

Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few years in our "great outside world," we may find incidents so marvelous and inspiring that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of The Land of Oz.

However, "The Magic of Oz" is really more strange and unusual than anything I have read or heard about on our side of The Great Sandy Desert which shuts us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past exciting years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of novelty.

A long and confining illness has prevented my answering all the good letters sent me—unless stamps were enclosed—but from now on I hope to be able to give prompt attention to each and every letter with which my readers favor me.

Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered and hoping the Oz Books will continue to give you pleasure as long as I am able to write them, I am

Yours affectionately,

L. FRANK BAUM.

"Royal Historian of Oz."

"OZCOT"

at HOLLYWOOD in CALIFORNIA

1919.

Part 2 The Magic of Oz

Chapter1 Mount Munch

On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big, tall hill called Mount Munch. One one side, the bottom of this hill just touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins.

The Munchkin folks, however, merely stand off and look at Mount Munch and know very little about it; for, about a third of the way up, its sides become too steep to climb, and if any people live upon the top of that great towering peak that seems to reach nearly to the skies, the Munchkins are not aware of the fact.

But people DO live there, just the same. The top of Mount Munch is shaped like a saucer, broad and deep, and in the saucer are fields where grains and vegetables grow, and flocks are fed, and brooks flow and trees bear all sorts of things. There are houses scattered here and there, each having its family of Hyups, as the people call themselves. The Hyups seldom go down the mountain, for the same reason that the Munchkins never climb up: the sides are too steep.