Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (OZ #4)

Serier

4 of 11

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Romaner

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Baum, having resigned himself to writing a series of Oz books, set up elements of this book in the prior Ozma of Oz. He was not entirely pleased with this, as the introduction to Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz opens with the protest that he knows many tales of many lands, and hoped that children would permit him to tell them those tales.

Written shortly after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and around the time Baum moved to California, the book starts with an earthquake in California. Dorothy and others are swallowed up by cracks in the earth, and fall into an underground cavern, where begin their adventures.

Very little of the story -six of the twenty chapters-actually takes place in Oz. As in Ozma of Oz before it, and in some of the books after, Oz is not the land where the adventures take place, but the land the characters are seeking as a refuge from adventure.

The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz. L. Frank Baum went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. Even while he was alive, Baum was styled as "the Royal Historian of Oz" to emphasize the concept that Oz is an actual place. The illusion created was that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma related their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of wireless telegraph.

Lyman "L." Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

Baum's avowed intentions with the Oz books, and other fairy tales, was to tell such tales as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen told, making them American and bringing them up to date by making the characters not stereotypical dwarfs or genies, and by removing both the violence and the moral to which the violence was to point. Although the first books contained a fair amount of violence, it decreased with the series; in The Emerald City of Oz, Ozma objected to doing violence even to the Nomes who threaten Oz with invasion. His introduction is often cited as the beginnings of the sanitization of children's stories, although he did not do a great deal more than eliminate harsh moral lessons. His stories still include decapitations, eye removals, maimings of all kinds, and other violent acts, but the tone is very different from Grimm or Andersen.

© 2014 Anncona Media AB (E-bog): 9789176050545

Release date

E-bog: 19. marts 2014

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Tik-Tok of Oz [The Wizard of Oz series #8] L. Frank Baum
  2. The Magic of Oz L. Frank Baum
  3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (OZ #1) L. Frank Baum
  4. Tales of Terror and Mystery Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. The Scarecrow of Oz [The Wizard of Oz series #9] L. Frank Baum
  6. The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien
  7. My Ántonia Willa Cather
  8. The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
  9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark G. Twain
  10. The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien
  11. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
  12. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life Herman Melville
  13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
  14. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras Jules Verne
  15. Little Women Louisa May Alcott
  16. The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky
  17. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
  18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - with Lectures for Use as a Study Guide Mark Twain
  19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
  20. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
  21. Little Women Louisa May Alcott
  22. The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
  23. Wild Apples Henry David Thoreau
  24. Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
  25. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
  26. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
  27. Little Men Louisa May Alcott
  28. The Professor Charlotte Brontë
  29. Gulliver's Travels (A Graphic Novel Audio): Illustrated Classics Jonathan Swift
  30. The Great Siege: Malta 1565 Ernle Bradford
  31. Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in Scandinavia Jules Verne
  32. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The 42nd Anniversary Edition of Douglas Adams's International Bestseller Douglas Adams
  33. Legendborn: TikTok made me buy it! Tracy Deonn
  34. Nikola Tesla: History of His Inventions, Engineering and Electric Projects, and Predictions Kelly Mass
  35. Renaissance: The Historical Time Period of Renewed Art and Trade Kelly Mass
  36. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
  37. The Book of Kings James Thackara
  38. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837–1914 various authors
  39. Studies in Pessimism: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer
  40. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving Bram Stoker
  41. Painters: Background and History of Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh Kelly Mass
  42. 600 Quotations from the Great Writers of the 17th Century Miguel de Cervantes
  43. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson
  44. For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball Bud Selig
  45. Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To David A. Sinclair
  46. Proposed Roads to Freedom Bertrand Russell

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis