The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Topics: класика
Beginning
by L. Frank Baum
This book is dedicated to my good friend & comrade My Wife L.F.B.
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…
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