Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 5

《Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 5》是2013年Simon & Schuster US出版的圖書，作者是L. Frank Baum（萊曼·弗蘭克·鮑姆）。

基本介紹

• 中文名：Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 5
• 作者：L. Frank Baum（萊曼·弗蘭克·鮑姆）
• 出版社：Simon & Schuster US
• 出版時間：2013年3月5日
• ISBN：9781442485518

內容簡介

Revel in the magic of Oz in this collection of the final three books in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series. The three concluding titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In The Magic of Oz, the mischievous Kiki Aru has discovered a magical word that can transform him and anyone else into whatever he wants. Worse yet, Kiki has been recruited by the villainous Nome King in his latest attempt to get revenge on Princess Ozma and all her friends. Can Dorothy and the Wizard stop the evildoers before they conquer Oz? Or will Kiki’s incredible powers finally give the Nome King the revenge he has craved for so long? In Glinda of Oz, Dorothy and Ozma journey to a remote part of Oz to stop a war between the Flatheads and the Skeezers. But the Flatheads and Skeezers have a different idea. Soon Ozma and Dorothy are trapped in an amazing crystal-domed city on an enchanted island. The watertight city submerges itself, and only the Wizard and Glinda can save them—but will they make it in time? In The Royal Book of Oz, the Scarecrow goes to search for his family roots. He returns to the cornfield where Dorothy first found him and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Will he decide to stay there? Or will he return to Oz?

作者簡介

L. Frank Baum, Writer, born in Chittenango, New York, USA. A sickly child, he studied at home, became an actor (1870s), worked in the family oil business, then moved to South Dakota. While working as a journalist there, he wrote his first book, Father Goose: His Book, published in 1899 after he had moved to Chicago to work on a trade magazine for window decorators. It proved a success; but his next book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), was even more successful, and he adapted it for the musical stage in 1901. After travelling to Europe, he settled in Pasadena, CA (1902), where he turned out 13 more books in the Oz series and many other children's stories, mostly in the fantasy genre, using pen names such as Schuyler Staunton, Laura Bancroft, Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, Suzanne Metcalfe, Floyd Akens, and Edith Van Dyne. Although appreciated primarily as children's tales, the Oz books have also been read as incorporating Baum's views on American society.

　　萊曼·弗蘭克·鮑姆（Lyman Frank Baum，1856年5月15日－1919年5月6日），美國作家、演員、報紙編輯，也曾是獨立電影的電影監製。他生於紐約州，父親是個桶匠，後來到賓夕法尼亞州開採石油並發了財。鮑姆的童年是在父親的大莊園裡度過的，他從小體弱多病，受到家人的特別關照。他對童話和幻想故事的迷戀幾乎到了“白日夢”的程度，父母很擔心這會影響他的性格發展，決心送他去軍校。軍校的嚴謹生活並沒有改善他的性格，只導致他精神崩潰。父母只好把他從軍校接回家，任由他發展自己的興趣。

　　《綠野仙蹤》（The Wonderful Wizard of Oz，1900年，又譯為《神秘歐茲國》、《奧茲國之偉大巫師》）是他最有名的美國兒童文學著作。此書後被改編為電影《綠野仙蹤》（1939年）。在《綠野仙蹤》大受歡迎之後，陸續創作奧茲國相關係列作品14本。

　　他的第一本童話著作是《鵝媽媽故事集》（Mother Goose in Prose，1897年），一生共有約60部著作。