《绿野仙踪:THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (英文原版,朗读下载)》

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《绿野仙踪》，几乎每一个伟大国度都有代表性的传世儿童经典，如英国的《爱丽丝梦游仙境》、德国的《格林童话》、丹麦的《安徒生童话》、意大利的《木偶奇遇记》、法国的《小王子》等。而在美国当属弗兰克·鲍姆的《绿野仙踪》。 1900年，鲍姆写作的奥芝（OZ）系列故事中的《奥芝国的魔法师》（中文版译名《绿野仙踪》）诞生。《绿野仙踪》自问世以来，这本书受到了世界儿童的喜爱，《绿野仙踪》1900年上市便成为畅销书，众多版本畅销至今。如今《绿野仙踪》已被译成五十多种文字在全球出版。《绿野仙踪》本书为英文原版，同时附赠配套朗读MP3免费下载（下载地址见图书封底博客链接），让读者在阅读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英文阅读水平。

     几乎每一个伟大国度都有其具有代表性的传世儿童经典，如英国刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝梦游仙境》、德国的《格林童话》、丹麦的《安徒生童话》、意大利的《木偶奇遇记》、法国的《小王子》等。那么在美国呢?这本书当属弗兰克·鲍姆的《绿野仙踪》。 1900年，鲍姆写作的奥芝（OZ）系列故事中的*部《奥芝国的魔法师》（中文版译名《绿野仙踪》）诞生。自问世以来，《绿野仙踪》受到了世界儿童的喜爱，《绿野仙踪》1900年上市便成为畅销书，众多版本畅销至今。1902年，《绿野仙踪》这一故事被改编成舞台剧在百老汇上演，大受欢迎。1939年，米高梅公司将《绿野仙踪》这一经典故事搬上银幕，著名影星朱迪·嘉兰（Judy Garland）主演，于是这部故事在西方家喻户晓。如今《绿野仙踪》已被译成五十多种文字在全球出版。
    《绿野仙踪》以时间为序，围绕奥芝国的历史，讲述了一个名为多萝西的小女孩被飓风卷到另一个国度奥芝国的历险记，她和狮子、铁皮人、稻草人，还有小狗托托一起，追寻勇气、善良和智慧，*终实现了各自愿望。书中没有传统童话故事中的王子、公主等角色，以引人入胜的系列故事情节、真情美好的画面和没有暴力的场景，在孩子内心植入生活的美德与智慧，让他们敢于冒险，懂得团结互助与善良友爱。这一经典的童话故事，也表达了人们对美好家园的向往，正如书中主题所言：“只有家，才是*美好的”。

   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 blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

   Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.

——L. Frank Baum

《绿野仙踪》作者莱曼·弗兰克·鲍姆，美国著名作家及剧作家，美国儿童文学之父。出生于美国纽约的一个富庶企业主家庭，从小患有先天性心脏病，童年时代几乎都是在阅读中度过。成年后曾先后从事过记者、编辑、演员、公司职员等各种职业。1880年鲍姆开始了写作生涯，1899年出版了第一部短篇童话集《鹅爸爸的故事》。1900年出版的以虚构的奥芝国为背景创作的《绿野仙踪》成为其著名、相当受读者欢迎的一部作品，被评选为“十部美国伟大的儿童文学作品”之一。

Chapter Ⅰ. The Cyclone /1

Chapter Ⅱ. The Council with The Munchkins /9

Chapter Ⅲ. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow /21

Chapter Ⅳ. The Road Through the Forest /33

Chapter Ⅴ. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman /43

Chapter Ⅵ. The Cowardly Lion /55

Chapter Ⅶ. The Journey to The Great Oz /65

Chapter Ⅷ. The Deadly Poppy Field /77

Chapter Ⅸ. The Queen of the Field Mice /89

Chapter Ⅹ. The Guardian of the Gates /99

Chapter Ⅺ. The Emerald City of Oz /111

Chapter Ⅻ. The Search for the Wicked Witch /129

Chapter XIII. The Rescue /149

Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys /157

Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible /169

Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug /185

Chapter XVII. How the Balloon was Launched /193

Chapter XVIII. Away to the South /201

Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees /209

Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country /217

Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts /227

Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings /233

Chapter XXIII. The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish /241

Chapter XXIV. Home Again /248

Chapter I

The Cyclone

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 trapdoor 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 ploughed 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. Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.

It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.

Today, however, they were not playing. Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual.

Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in her arms, and looked at the sky too. Aunt Em was washing the dishes.

From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and

Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm. There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.

Suddenly Uncle Henry stood up.

“There’s a cyclone coming, Em,” he called to his wife. “I’ll go look after the stock.” Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.

Aunt Em dropped her work and came to the door. One glance told her of the danger close at hand.

“Quick, Dorothy!” she screamed. “Run for the cellar!”

Toto jumped out of Dorothy’s arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap-door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last, and started to follow her aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.

Then a strange thing happened.

The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.

The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone. In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

It was very dark, and the wind howled horr