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【内容简介】
《绿野仙踪》（The Wonderful Wizard of Oz），也称《奥兹国的魔法师》《奥兹国的奇特男巫》。
书中讲述了堪萨斯小女孩儿多萝茜及小狗托托被一阵龙卷风吹到了一个神奇的国度奥兹国，为回到家乡而展开的一场关于友情、勇气与梦想的奇幻历险故事。一路上，多萝茜遇到了渴望拥有聪明大脑的稻草人、想拥有善良之心的铁皮人，还有希望获得无上勇气的胆小狮子，并成了好朋友。他们患难与共，历尽艰辛，每个人都实现了愿望。
【作者简介】
莱曼·弗兰克·鲍姆（Lyman Frank Baum，1856—1919），美国具有开创意义的童话作家，曾自封“奥兹国皇家历史学家”。
1899年，开始儿童文学创作。一生共创作55部小说、83个短篇故事，以及200余首诗歌。其中总共14部的“绿野仙踪”系列（又名《奥兹国经典童话》）极为成功，《奥兹国的魔法师》更是高居美国畅销童书榜首。他也因此被称为“奥兹的作家”，被誉为“美国童话之父”。
【目录】
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Cyclone
Chapter 2 The Council with the Munchkins
Chapter 3 How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
Chapter 4 The Road Through the Forest
Chapter 5 The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
Chapter 6 The Cowardly Lion
Chapter 7 The Journey to the Great Oz
Chapter 8 The Deadly Poppy Field
Chapter 9 The Queen of the Field Mice
Chapter 10 The Guardian of the Gate
Chapter 11 The Emerald City of Oz
Chapter 12 The Search for the Wicked Witch
Chapter 13 The Rescue
Chapter 14 The Winged Monkeys
Chapter 15 The Discovery of Oz the Terrible
Chapter 16 The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
Chapter 17 How the Balloon Was Launched
Chapter 18 Away to the South
Chapter 19 Attacked by the Fighting Trees
Chapter 20 The Dainty China Country
Chapter 21 The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
Chapter 22 The Country of the Quadlings
Chapter 23 Glinda Grants Dorothy’s Wish
Chapter 24 Home Again
【前言】
Introduction
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 incidents.
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.
L. Frank Baum
Chicago, April, 1900.
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Chapter 2 The Council with the Munchkins（节选）
She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.
The little girl gave a cry of amazement and looked about her, her eyes growing bigger and bigger at the wonderful sights she saw.
The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.
While she stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen. They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older.
Three were men and one a woman, and all were oddly dressed. They wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkled sweetly as they moved. The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders. Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds. The men were dressed in blue, of the same shade as their hats, and wore well-polished boots with a deep roll of blue at the tops. The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards. But the little woman was doubtless much older. Her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly.
