书名：The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 绿野仙踪
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1180L
作者：L. Frank Baum
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2006
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530295
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.7 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：240

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz《绿野仙踪》是美国儿童文学作家莱曼·弗兰克·鲍姆系列作品《奥兹国经典童话》的开篇之作，也是非常知名的一篇。《绿野仙踪》出版于1900年，连续两年成为美国畅销童书。在之后的20年间，鲍姆陆续创作发表了一部又一部有关奥兹国的奇幻冒险童话故事，共十四本。这一系列在美国享有极高的声誉，是美国儿童文学协会（CLA）评选的“十部美国伟大的儿童文学作品”之一，也是美国全国教育协会（NEA）推荐的童书之一。《绿野仙踪》问世百年以来，被翻译成20多种语言出版，根据这个故事所改编的动画片、电影、舞台剧等更是不计其数。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Regina Barreca作序，书本小巧便携，内容完整无删减。

Since it first appeared in 1900,The Wonderful Wizard of Ozhas brought wonderment and joy to succeeding generations of adults and children alike. In it, all thespecial fears and delightful fantasies of a child’s dreamworld come to life as the cyclone lifts Dorothy form Kansas and deposits her in the enchanted country of the Munchkins. Here she meets the famous Oz characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman,the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. And here her adventures along the Yellow Brick Road on the way to the Emerald City and the Wizard himself evoke the rich, universal appeal of a classic fairy tale.
“I have never known or heard of an American man or woman who has started to readThe Wonderful Wizard of Ozand put it down without finishing it. I hope there will never be one.”  — James Thurber 
With a New Introduction byRegina Barreca

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz《绿野仙踪》讲述了一场精彩绝伦的奇幻冒险，堪萨斯州的小姑娘多萝西和她的小狗托托被一阵威力无比的龙卷风吹到了奥兹国，为了回到家乡，回到收养她这个孤儿的亨利叔叔和艾姆婶婶身边，她遇到种种惊险，经历了千辛万苦。在她的漫长旅程中，不断有新的伙伴加入进来：一心想要得到能够思索的脑子的稻草人，一味想要一颗活跃的心的铁皮伐木工，还有拼命想要获得勇气的胆小的狮子。他们在加入这个队伍以前，各有自己的遭遇，却在旅途过程中彼此成了亲密的旅伴。他们患难与共，喜悦同享，一起度过了那些不可思议的奇特经历，后来都实现了各自的心愿。
Follow the yellow brick road with Dorothy and her friends as they travel to the Emerald City in search of the great Wizard of Oz in this new, complete and unabridged edition of the classic tale that winds its way from Kansas to faraway places and back. From the land of the Munchkins to the deadly poppy field, from encounters with ferocious Kalidahs, Winged Monkeys, and Fighting Trees to battles with the Wicked Witches of the East and West, the magic of Baum’s story is beautifully reimagined through the extraordinary art of Michael Sieben.

莱曼·弗兰克·鲍姆（Lyman Frank Baum，1856-1919），儿童文学作家，出生于美国纽约州奇特南戈一个富商之家。自幼爱幻想，受父亲启发开始提笔写作。一生共创作55部小说，83个短篇故事，以及200余首诗歌。处女作《鹅妈妈故事集》于1897年问世。时隔三年，《绿野仙踪》出版，连续两年成为美国畅销童书。此后二十年间，又以奥兹国为背景创作了13部系列小说。1939年，米高梅电影公司将《绿野仙踪》搬上大荧幕，成为影史经典。
Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American children’s book author, best known forThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and several other works (55 novels in total, plus four “lost” novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings).

Born in 1856, in Chittenango, New York, L. Frank Baum is best remembered for his monumental 1900 classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He returned frequently to the magical world he’d created, writing 13 books set in Oz. His considerable literary output included 55 novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and many miscellaneous writings, including scripts and “lost” novels. He passed away in 1919.

Regina Barreca is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. She is the editor of seven books, including The Penguin Book of Women’s Humor, and the author of four others. She writes frequently for the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Hartford Courant.

CHAPTER 1
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 nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled, now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.