The Road to Oz / Путешествие в Страну Оз. Книга для чтения на английском языке

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Лаймен Фрэнк Баум. The Road to Oz / Путешествие в Страну Оз. Книга для чтения на английском языке

To My Readers

1. The Way to Butterfield

2. Dorothy Meets Button-Bright

3. A Queer Village

4. King Dox

5. The Rainbow’s Daughter

6. The City of Beasts

7. The Shaggy Man’s Transformation

8. The Musicker

9. Facing the Scoodlers

10. Escaping the Soup-Kettle

11. Johnny Dooit Does It

12. The Deadly Desert Crossed

13. The Truth Pond

14. Tik-Tok and Billina

15. The Emperor’s Tin Castle

16. Visiting the Pumpkin-Field

17. The Royal Chariot Arrives

18. The Emerald City

19. The Shaggy Man’s Welcome

20. Princess Ozma of Oz

21. Dorothy Receives the Guests

22. Important Arrivals

23. The Grand Banquet

24. The Birthday Celebration

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Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another “Oz Book” about Dorothy’s strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because you wanted him to be there, and many other characters which you will recognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and if the story is not exactly as you would have written it yourselves, you must remember that a story has to be a story before it can be written down, and the writer cannot change it much without spoiling it.

In the preface to “Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz” I said I would like to write some stories that were not “Oz” stories, because I thought I had written about Oz long enough; but since that volume was published I have been fairly deluged with letters[1] from children imploring me to “write more about Dorothy,” and “more about Oz,” and since I write only to please the children I shall try to respect their wishes.

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Dorothy didn’t know. She looked around her anxiously for some familiar landmark; but everything was strange. Between the branches of the many roads were green meadows and a few shrubs and trees, but she couldn’t see anywhere the farmhouse from which she had just come, or anything she had ever seen before – except the shaggy man and Toto. Besides this, she had turned around and around so many times trying to find out where she was, that now she couldn’t even tell which direction the farm-house ought to be in; and this began to worry her and make her feel anxious.

“I’m ’fraid, Shaggy Man,” she said, with a sigh, “that we’re lost[5]!”

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