L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Mit Illustrationen von W. W. Denslow

Herausgegeben von Lucille Grindhammer

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [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.

Introduction [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.

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

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[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.