《The Wonderful Wizard of Oz》（《綠野仙蹤》）

內容簡介

First published in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is one of the most beloved children's books ever written. When Dorothy and Toto are suddenly swept off the plains of Kansas by a huge cyclone to the land of Oz, they meet up with some of the most endearing characters ever created - the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. Together they set off on a fantastic journey down the yellow brick road in search of the wonderful Wizard of Oz.
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
 

《綠野仙蹤》是美國作傢弗蘭剋·鮑姆的代錶作。1970年被列為20世紀世界十五大暢銷書之一。它已經被翻譯為多種語言。《綠野仙蹤》又翻譯為《綠野尋仙記》，它講述的是小女孩多露茜的曆險故事。多露茜聰明、善良、勇敢，她被龍捲風吹到瞭另一個地方，在那裏，她結識瞭獅子、稻草人和鐵皮人等小夥伴，他們都有自己的優點和缺點，在曆險的過程中，多露茜幫助他們改掉瞭自己的缺點。故事情節跌宕起伏、麯摺動人，使本書成為各國兒童喜歡的現代童話故事之一，足以與安徒生童話和格林童話媲美。

《綠野仙蹤》發錶後，在讀者中引起瞭巨大反響，紛紛要求作者繼續為他們寫齣更好的作品，於是鮑姆又陸續創作瞭十三部續集，其中《奧芝仙境》是續集中的佳作。本書收錄瞭他的《綠野仙蹤》和《奧芝仙境》兩部作品。《奧芝仙境》講述的是小男孩蒂普的曆險記，他與稻草人、鐵皮人、南瓜人、鋸木馬曆經種種艱難險阻，在曆險中他們運用聰明纔智與壞女巫鬥智鬥勇，在格林達女王的幫助下，取得瞭勝利，蒂普也成為翡翠國的女王——原來是壞女巫將他變成男孩，實際上他是翡翠王國的公主——奧芝瑪。

作者簡介
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and received enormous, immediate success. Baum went on to write seventeen additional novels in the Oz series. Today, he is considered the father of the American fairy tale. His stories inspired the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, one of the most widely viewed movies of all time.

弗蘭剋·鮑姆（1856—1919），曾經在美國阿伯丁市和伊利諾州芝加哥市擔任報社的編輯，他因為這本書而一舉成名。他的部兒童讀物是《鵝老爹》，在《綠野仙蹤》齣版後，他又創作瞭十三部續集，其中《奧芝仙境》是這些續集中的佳作。他的主要作品還有《聖誕老人曆險記》、《天島》等。

目錄

Introduction
 
The Cyclone
  
The Council with The Munchkins
 
How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
 
The Road Through the Forest
  
The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
  
The Cowardly Lion
 
The Journey to The Great Oz
 
The Deadly Poppy Field
 
The Queen of the Field Mice
  
The Guardian of the Gates
  
The Wonderful Emerald City of Oz
 
The Search for the Wicked Witch
  
How the Four were Reunited

The Winged Monkeys
  
The Discovery of Oz the Terrible
  
The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
 
How the Balloon was Launched
  
Away to the South
  
Attacked by the Fighting Trees
  
The Dainty China Country
 
The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
  
The Country of the Quadlings
  
The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish
  
Home Again
 

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Chapter 1
 
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar-except a small hole, dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap-door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
 
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
 
When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeksand lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled, now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.
 
Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.
 
It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long, silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.
 
To-day, however, they were not playing. Uncle Henry sat upon the door-step and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual. Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in her arms, and looked at the sky too. Aunt Em was washing the dishes.
 
From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm. There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.
 
Suddenly Uncle Henry stood up.
 
"There's a cyclone coming, Em," he called to his wife; "I'll go look after the stock." Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.
 
Aunt Em dropped her work and came to the door. One glance told her of the danger close at hand.
 
"Quick, Dorothy!" she screamed; "run for the cellar!"
 
Toto jumped out of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap-door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last, and started to follow her aunt. When she was half way across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.
 
A strange thing then happened.
 
The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
 
The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone. In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
 
It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily. After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she we 【中商原版】英文The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 綠野仙蹤 經典英文童書 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書