Dorothée et son jeune chien Toto sont emportés par un cyclone et transportés dans un pays merveilleux. Seul le grand et puissant magicien d'Oz peut aider la jeune fille à rentrer chez elle, au Kansas.
Mais le chemin est long et semé d'embûches : accompagnée d'un épouvantail qui se plaint de ne pas avoir de cerveau, d'un bûcheron en fer-blanc qui dit ne pas avoir de coeur, et d'un lion qui a peur de manquer de courage, Dorothée se rend dans la Cité d'Émeraude...

Le magicien d'Oz

Fashioned as a whimsical fairy tale, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus was published in 1902, just two years after L. Frank Baum's masterpiece of the imagination, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This festive edition of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus features charming, original illustrations by Mary Cowles Clark and an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley. A baby is found by wood nymphs in the forest of Burzee. They raise him as their own and give him the name Neclaus. When he grows up, Neclaus has to leave the forest so he makes a home for himself in the laughing valley of Hohaha, where he lives amongst humans for the first time. He discovers there that many children are very poor and neglected so, to cheer them up, he whittles wooden toys as gifts. Eventually he makes presents for all the children and so the story of Santa Claus is born.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the perfect addition to any bookshelf.

 When a tornado hits Dorothy's home in the Kansas prairies, she and her dog, Toto, are whisked away to the magical Land of Oz.

 To return home, Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and seek help from the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. So, accompanied by the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy sets out on a wild and magical adventure.

 This classic children's novel has been described as the first American fairy tale, and its huge global legacy includes numerous book, film, TV and theatrical adaptations.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Pour la première fois en français, l'intégrale en six tomes du Cycle d'Oz, l'oeuvre culte de L. Frank Baum. Le Magicien d'Oz raconte l'histoire de Dorothy, une petite fille qui vit au Kansas chez son oncle et sa tante. Emportée par un cyclone avec son chien Toto, elle se retrouve dans un étrange pays où, avec l'aide de compagnons un peu bizarres - un épouvantail, un homme en fer-blanc et un lion froussard -, elle va affronter non seulement une sorcière particulièrement cruelle, mais aussi des tigres, des singes volants, des loups affamés, une araignée géante...Le Merveilleux Pays d'Oz est la suite du Magicien d'Oz. Le lecteur y fait la rencontre de Tip, un jeune garçon contraint de servir la sorcière Mombi et qui finit par s'échapper avec Jack, un drôle de bonhomme en bois à tête de citrouille. Ensemble, ils vont s'aventurer dans une contrée merveilleuse et affronter de nombreuses épreuves. Tout le monde connaît Le Magicien d'Oz, d'abord par le roman de L. Frank Baum paru en 1900, puis par le film de Victor Fleming (1939). En revanche, on sait moins que Baum donna une suite aux aventures de Dorothy et de ses compagnons - et quelle suite ! Plus de dix volumes parus entre 1900 et 1919, dont nous commençons la publication inédite et intégrale, illustrée par Stéphane Levallois.

Le cycle d'Oz - Volume 1

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection (All Oz novels by L.Frank Baum)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz. Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to create the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of wireless telegraph. Later Wizard of Oz books written by Ruth Plumly Thompson and other authors, as well as comic strips, are not included in this collection.
Content:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)
Ozma of Oz (1907)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
The Road to Oz (1909)
The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, collection of 6 short stories)
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
The Magic of Oz (1919, posthumously published)
Glinda of Oz (1920, posthumously published)

The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection (All Oz novels by L.Frank Baum)

With celebrations underway for Ozma of Oz's birthday, Dorothy and Toto again venture to the magical land of Oz. Meeting Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome along the way to the Emerald City of Oz, Dorothy and her companions must out-fox the mayor of Foxville and safely cross the Deadly Desert in time for Ozma's birthday party. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its thirteen sequels have enchanted audiences since their publication in the early twentieth century. The Road to Oz is the fifth novel in the Oz series, and features guest appearances by non-Oz characters-like Santa Claus and Jack Frost-from other L. Frank Baum works. HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Road To Oz

Dorothy and her dog Toto are carried away from Kansas by a cyclone and transported to the wonderful world of Oz. She meets three companions - Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Cowardly Lion - and the three journey to the Emerald City of Oz to ask the Wizard of Oz to give them their heart's desires, which in Dorothy's case is to return home to Kansas.

Wizard of oz, the

Emportée par un cyclone avec son petit chien, Dorothée se retrouve dans un bien étrange pays. Accompagnée d'un épouvantail qui parle, d'un bûcheron de fer-blanc et d'un lion poltron, elle se met en route vers le palais du mystérieux et puissant magicien d'Oz. Lui seul a le pouvoir de l'aider à rentrer chez elle, au Kansas. Mais à quel prix acceptera-t-il de secourir Dorothée et ses amis ?Le chemin est long et périlleux, et bien des épreuves les attendent...

THE oceans are big and broad. I believe two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water. What people inhabit this water has always been a subject of curiosity to the inhabitants of the land. Strange creatures come from the seas at times, and perhaps in the ocean depths are many, more strange than mortal eye has ever gazed upon.

This story is fanciful. In it the sea people talk and act much as we do, and the mermaids especially are not unlike the fairies with whom we have learned to be familiar. Yet they are real sea people, for all that, and with the exception of Zog the Magician they are all supposed to exist in the ocean's depths.

I am told that some very learned people deny that mermaids or sea-serpents have ever inhabited the oceans, but it would be very difficult for them to prove such an assertion unless they had lived under the water as Trot and Cap'n Bill did in this story.

I hope my readers who have so long followed Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz will be interested in Trot's equally strange experiences. The ocean has always appealed to me as a veritable wonderland, and this story has been suggested to me many times by my young correspondents in their letters. Indeed, a good many children have implored me to "write something about the mermaids, " and I have willingly granted the request.

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