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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900,and has since been reprinted countless times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum writing thirteen more Oz books. The original book has been in the public domain in the US since 1956. Baum dedicated the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife", Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901, the publisher, the George M. Hill Company, completed printing the first edition, which probably totaled around 35,000 copies. Records indicate that 21,000 copies were sold through 1900. Historians, economists and literary scholars have examined and developed possible political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, the majority of the reading public simply takes the story at face value.

杰克和安妮在树林里偶然发现了一间神奇树屋，树屋里满满的都是书，这对小兄妹还没有搞清楚树屋从哪里来之前，神秘的树屋便把他们带到史前时代。现在，杰克和安妮必须想出回家的办法，他们能在天黑之前回到家吗？还是会成为暴龙的晚餐呢？此外，杰克在恐龙的年代捡到了一枚上面刻着M字的金色徽章，究竟是谁比他们更早来这里拜访恐龙，而M又代表了什么意思呢？

鲁道夫·拉森狄尔年轻富有，出生于一个历史悠久的英国家庭，可他却长着卢里塔尼亚王室所特有的深红色头发和长而笔挺的鼻子。是多年前一个小小的家庭“意外”造成的结果。鲁道夫决定去参加卢里塔尼亚斯国王的加冕典礼。他到了曾达城，并在森林里漫步。第二天上午他却发现自己身陷意想不到的奇遇之中。他与新朋友萨普特上尉和弗里茨一起制定了营救曾达城堡中的囚徒的计划。很快他就与国王的死对头黑迈克和鲁帕特交上了手，而且爱上了国王的表妹，美丽的弗蕾维亚公主。然后国王……。然而，谁才是真正的卢里塔尼亚的国王呢？

One of series of children's books published between 1910-1920 about two boys who run away to join the circus. "No call to the heart of the youth of America finds a readier response than the call of the billowing canvas, the big red wagons, the crash of the circus band and the trill of the ringmaster's whistle. It is a call that captures the imagination of old and young alike, and so do the books of this series capture and enthrall the reader, for they were written by one who, besides weilding a master pen, has followed the sawdust trail from coast to coast, who knows the circus people and the sturdy manliness of those who do and dare for the entertainment of millions of circus-goers when the grass is green. Mr. Darlington paints a true picture of circus life."

这部书里自由地讲述了希腊、罗马、北欧、东方的古典故事，简洁优雅，引人入胜。 他信奉着“趣味纯洁，寓意高尚”的原则，让我们远离恐怖与色情，把我们领到一个尘世之外的世界：那里有不可捉摸的美丽、希望与幻想…… 神话中的人可以点石成金，神话中的男男女女可以自由自在地生存……打开布尔芬奇的这部书，你可以回身到“童话世界”里去。

The sad curlews, annunciators of the autumn, had just appeared in a mass in a gray squall, fleeing from the high sea under the threat of approaching tempests. 

Many boys clamour for a sea life, will not settle down to anything ashore, in spite of the pleading of parents, the warnings of wisdom, or the doleful experiences of friends. 

达林先生家里的三个小孩，经受不住由空中飞来的神秘野孩子彼得·潘的诱惑，很快也学会了飞行，趁父母不在，连夜飞出窗去，飞向奇异的“梦幻岛”。这岛上既有凶猛的野兽，又有原始部落中的“红人”，还有可怕的海盗，当然还有仙女和美人鱼，总之，经常出现在儿童梦中和幻想中的一切，这里都有；因此也就有与猛兽搏斗的打猎，有红人与海盗之间或孩子们与海盗之间的真正的战争。孩子们脱离了成人，无拘无束，自由自在，在彼得·潘的率领下，自己处理一切事务，尽情玩耍，也历经了各种危险。正如作者在书中所说：“在他们看来，没有妈妈照样可以过得很愉快。只有当妈妈的才认为，孩子离开了妈妈便不能生活。”可是后来，这些离家出走的孩子，尤其是其中的大姐姐温迪，开始想妈妈了，在她的动员下，孩子们告别了给他们带来过无限欢乐的“梦幻岛”，飞回了家中。后来他们都长成了大人。只有彼得·潘永不长大，也永不回家，他老在外面飞来飞去，把一代又一代的孩子带离家庭，让他们到“梦幻岛”上去享受自由自在的童年欢乐。作品的最后一句是这样写的：“只要孩子们是欢乐的、天真的、无忧无虑的，他们就可以飞向梦幻岛去。”