【英文原著类】The Magic of Oz(欧兹的魔法).pdf

The Magic of Oz
The Magic of Oz
by L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz"
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The Magic of Oz
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
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The Magic of Oz
CHAPTER 1. 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 e 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