The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum

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      L. Frank Baum

      The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

      Mit Illustrationen von W. W. Denslow

      Herausgegeben von Lucille Grindhammer

      Reclam

      wizard: Zauberer.Oz: Wortschöpfung; Phantasieland.

      1994 Philipp Reclam jun. GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart

      Gesamtherstellung: Reclam, Ditzingen

      Made in Germany 2017

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      ISBN 978-3-15-960572-2

      ISBN der Buchausgabe 978-3-15-009001-5

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      Inhalt

       The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

       Introduction

       I The Cyclone

       II The Council with the Munchkins

       III How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow

       IV The Road through the Forest

       V The Rescue of the Tin Woodman

       VI The Cowardly Lion

       VII The Journey to the Great Oz

       VIII The Deadly Poppy Field

       IX The Queen of the Field Mice

       X The Guardian of the Gates

       XI The Wonderful Emerald City of Oz

       XII The Search for the Wicked Witch

       XIII How the Four were Reunited

       XIV The Winged Monkeys

       XV The Discovery of Oz the Terrible

       XVI The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

       XVII How the Balloon was Launched

       XVIII Away to the South

       XIX Attacked by the Fighting Trees

       XX The Dainty China Country

       XXI The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts

       XXII The Country of the Quadlings

       XXIII The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish

       XXIV Home Again

       Editorische Notiz

       Literaturhinweise

       Nachwort

       Hinweise zur E-Book-Ausgabe

      [3] Introduction

      Folk lore, 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 bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern [4] child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

      Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out.

      Chicago, April, 1900 L. Frank Baum

      fairy tale: Märchen (fairy: Fee).youngster: junger Mensch, Kind.wholesome: gesund.manifestly (adv.): offensichtlich, augenscheinlich.to class: klassifizieren.wonder tale: märchenhafte Geschichte.stereotyped: stereotyp, gleichbleibend.genie: Geist, Kobold.to eliminate: beseitigen, entfernen.bloodcurdling: haarsträubend, grauenhaft.to devise: ausdenken, erfinden.to point a moral to a tale (arch.): eine Geschichte mit einer Moral versehen, ausstatten.fearsome: fürchterlich, schrecklich, gräßlich.to dispense with s.th.: auf etwas verzichten, etwas entbehren (können), ohne etwas auskommen.disagreeable: unangenehm, widerlich.solely (adv.): allein, ausschließlich.to pleasure s.o. (arch.): jdm. gefallen, jdn. erfreuen.to aspire to s.th.: nach etwas streben, trachten.heart-ache: Kummer, Sorge.nightmare: Alptraum, böser Traum.to leave s.th. out: etwas weg-, auslassen.

      [5] Chapter I

      The Cyclone

      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