Santa Claus in Oz. L. Frank Baum

      

      SANTA CLAUS IN OZ

      By

      L. FRANK BAUM

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       About L. Frank Baum:

      Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote a total of 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, more than 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and the nascent medium of film; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book would become a landmark of twentieth-century cinema. His works anticipated many technological advances that would become commonplace a century later: television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), and cultural trends such as women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), police corruption and false evidence (Phoebe Daring), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

      Source: Wikipedia

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

       The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

       YOUTH

       1. Burzee

       2. The Child of the Forest

       3. The Adoption

       4. Claus

       5. The Master Woodsman

       6. Claus Discovers Humanity

       7. Claus Leaves the Forest

       MANHOOD

       1. The Laughing Valley

       2. How Claus Made the First Toy

       3. How the Ryls Colored the Toys

       4. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened

       5. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley

       6. The Wickedness of the Awgwas

       7. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil

       8. The First Journey with the Reindeer

       9. "Santa Claus!"

       10. Christmas Eve

       11. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys

       12. The First Christmas Tree

       OLD AGE

       1. The Mantle of Immortality

       2. When the World Grew Old

       3. The Deputies of Santa Claus

       A Kidnapped Santa Claus

      The Life and Adventures

       of

       Santa Claus

      YOUTH

      1. Burzee

      Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path through which to touch the ground in little spots and to cast weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves.

      The Forest of Burzee is mighty and grand and awesome to those who steal beneath its shade. Coming from the sunlit meadows into its mazes it seems at first gloomy, then pleasant, and afterward filled with never-ending delights.

      For hundreds of years it has flourished in all its magnificence, the silence of its inclosure unbroken save by the chirp of busy chipmunks, the growl of wild beasts and the songs of birds.

      Yet Burzee has its inhabitants—for all this. Nature peopled it in the beginning with Fairies, Knooks, Ryls and Nymphs. As long as the Forest stands it will be a home, a refuge and a playground to these sweet immortals, who revel undisturbed in its depths.

      Civilization has never yet reached Burzee. Will it ever, I wonder?

      2. The Child of the Forest

      Once, so long ago our great-grandfathers could scarcely have heard it mentioned, there lived within the great Forest of Burzee a Wood-Nymph named Necile. She was closely related to the mighty Queen Zurline,