该书是《奥兹仙境》和《奥兹玛公主》的合本。书的上半部分讲述的是：聪明、调皮的蒂普做了一个取名为杰克的南瓜头，本想吓唬老巫婆姆比，南瓜头却因老巫婆的魔法试验而获得了生命，蒂普只好带着南瓜头一起逃亡。当他们到达翡翠城时，翡翠城却被叛军围困。在他们向翡翠城国王稻草人的好朋友铁皮人求救时，却不料进入了姆比布下的迷魂阵中。最后，在好女巫格林达的帮助下，他们夺回了翡翠城，而被解除魔法的蒂普也现了真身~一位失踪多年的奥兹玛公主。
书的下半部分讲述的是：多萝茜和黄母鸡毕琳娜被风暴吹到了树上长着午餐的伊夫国。在这个魔幻的国度，多萝茜遇见了老朋友稻草人、铁皮人和狮子，同时还结识了新朋友滴答人、奥兹玛公主。他们一起来到美丽、神秘莫测的诺姆地下宫殿解救伊夫王后和她的10个孩子们，结果却大多被施以魔法，好在黄母鸡毕琳娜挺身而出，急中生智，救出了大家。
该书一经出版，很快就成为当时最畅销的儿童文学作品，至今已被译成世界上几十种文字，曾经先后多次被改编成电影、电视和卡通片。书中所展现的神奇故事伴随了一代又一代人的美丽童年、少年直至成年。无论作为语言学习的课本，还是作为通俗的文学读本，全文引进该书对当代中国的青少年都将产生积极的影响。为了使读者能够了解英文故事概况，进而提高阅读速度和阅读水平，在每章的开始部分增加了中文导读。
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《天域魔国》是美国儿童文学之父莱曼·弗兰克·鲍姆所编著的众多童话著作之一。《天域魔国》是其代表作《绿野仙踪》的续集，由“奥兹仙境”和“奥兹玛公主”两部分构成。该书一经出版，很快就成为当时最畅销的儿童文学作品，至今已被译成世界上几十种文字，曾经先后多次被改编成电影、电视和卡通片。书中所展现的神奇故事伴随了一代又一代人的美丽童年、少年直至成年。《天域魔国》为英文版。为了使读者能够了解英文故事概况，进而提高阅读速度和阅读水平，在每章的开始部分增加了中文导读。
作者简介
莱曼·弗兰克·鲍姆(Lyman Frank Baum, 1856~1919)：美国儿童文学之父，自称“奥兹国皇家历史学家”。本书是其代表作《绿野仙踪》的续集，由“奥兹仙境”和“奥兹玛公主”两部分构成。
目录
上部 《奥兹仙境》
第1章 蒂普造了一个南瓜头
第2章 令人惊奇的生命粉末
第3章 亡命逃亡
第4章 蒂普做了一个魔法实验
第5章 锯木马活了
第6章 南瓜头杰克骑马到翡翠城
第7章 稻草人国王
第8章 金珠儿的起义军
第9章 稻草人计划逃走
第10章 通往铁皮人那里的旅程
第11章 镀镍皇帝
第12章 童子军皮环虫
第13章 一段被高度放大的历史
第14章 老姆比施展魔法
第15章 女王的囚犯
第16章 稻草人花时间思考
第17章 阿甘令人惊讶地飞了
第18章 在寒鸦巢里
第19章 尼基迪克博士著名的许愿药
第20章 狮子成了百兽之王
第21章 铁皮人摘下一朵玫瑰花
第22章 老姆比变形
第23章 奥兹的奥兹玛公主
第24章 知足的财富
下部 《奥兹玛公主》
第1章 鸡笼里的小女孩
第2章 黄母鸡
第3章 沙地上的字
第4章 嘀嗒人
第5章 多萝茜打开晚餐桶
第6章 兰威德尔公主
第7章 奥兹玛前来营救
第8章 饥饿的老虎
第9章 伊夫王室
第10章 锤子巨人
第11章 诺姆国王
第12章 十一次猜测
第13章 诺姆国王大笑
第14章 多萝茜变得勇敢
第15章 毕琳娜吓坏了诺姆国王
第16章 紫色、绿色和金黄色
第17章 稻草人打胜仗了
第18章 铁皮人的命运
第19章 伊夫国王
第20章 翡翠城
第21章 多萝茜的魔带
文摘
第1章 蒂普造了一个南瓜头
Chapter1 Tip Manufactures a Pumpkin head
奥兹国北方的吉利金国里有一个名叫蒂普的小男孩，他很小的时候被一个叫姆比的巫婆收养。蒂普要为老巫婆做所有的家务活和地里的活。
有一天，收割完玉米后，蒂普往牛棚里搬运南瓜，他忽然想到做一只“鬼脸南瓜灯”，用它来吓吓姆比。他挑了一只橘红色的大南瓜，用小刀刻了两只圆眼睛，一只三角鼻子，一张新月似的嘴巴。南瓜的笑容如此夸张，蒂普忍不住大笑起来。
姆比到村里买东西，要两天才回来。蒂普用树枝和叶子做了人的手臂、腿和脚，用厚树皮做了身体。完成之后，蒂普就扛着南瓜人回家了。它看上去十分高大。第二天，他又为它做了一个灵巧的脖子，使南瓜人的头可以灵巧地转动。
最后，蒂普在姆比放纪念品与财宝的大柜子的最底层，找到了一条紫色的裤子、一件红衬衫和一件带着白斑点的粉红色背心为南瓜人穿上，并叫它“南瓜头杰克”。
n the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.
This boy remembered nothing of his parents, for he had been brought when quite young to be reared by the old woman known as Mombi, whose reputation, I am sorry to say, was none of the best. For the Gillikin people had reason to suspect her of indulging in magical arts, and therefore hesitated to associate with her.
Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled that part of the Land of Oz had forbidden any other Witch to exist in her dominions. So Tip's guardian, however much she might aspire to working magic, realized it was unlawful to be more than a Sorceress, or at most a Wizardess.
Tip was made to carry wood from the forest, that the old woman might boil her pot. He also worked in the corn~fields, hoeing and husking,and he fed the pigs and milked the four-homed cow that was Mombi's especial pride.
But you must not suppose he worked all the time, for he felt that would be bad for him. When sent to the forest Tip often climbed trees for birds'eggs or amused himself chasing the fleet white rabbits or fishing in the brooks with bent pins. Then he would hastily gather his armful of wood and carry it home. And when he was supposed to be working in the corn~fields, and the tall stalks hid him from Mombi's view, Tip would often dig in the gopher holes, or if the mood seized him lie upon his back between the rows of corn and take a nap. So, by taking care not to exhaust his strength, he grew as strong and rugged as a boy may be.
Mombi's curious magic often frightened her neighbors, and they treated her shyly, yet respectfully, because of her weird powers. But Tip frankly hated her, and took no pains to hide his feelings. Indeed, he sometimes showed less respect for the old woman than he should have done, considering she was his guardian.
There were pumpkins in Mombi's corn~fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks, and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four~homed cow might eat of them in the winter time. But one day, after the corn had all been cut and stacked, and Tip was carrying the pumpkins to the stable, he took a notion to make a "Jack Lantern" and try to give the old woman a fright with it.
So he selected a fine, big pumpkin~one with a lustrous, orange~red color~and began carving it. With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three~cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon. The face, when completed, could not have been considered strictly beautiful,but it wore a smile so big and broad, and was so jolly in expression, that even Tip laughed as he looked admiringly at his work.
The child had no playmates, so he did not know that boys often dig out the inside of a "pumpkin~jack," and in the space thus made put a lighted candle to render the face more startling; but he conceived an idea of his own that promised to be quite as effective. He decided to manufacture the form of a man, who would wear this pumpkinhead, and to stand it in a place where old Mombi would meet it face to face.
"And then," said Tip to himself, with a laugh, "she'll squeal louder than the brown pig does when I pull her tail, and shiver with fright worse than I did last year when I had the ague!"
He had plenty of time to accomplish this task, for Mombi had gone to a village~to buy groceries, she said and it was a journey of at least two days.
So he took his axe to the forest, and selected some stout, straight saplings, which he cut down and trimmed of all their twigs and leaves. From these he would make the arms, and legs, and feet of his man. For the body he stripped a sheet of thick bark from around a big tree, and with much labor fashioned it into a cylinder of about the right size, pinning the edges together with wooden pegs. Then, whistling happily as he worked, he carefully jointed the limbs and fastened them to the body with pegs whittled into shape with his knife.
By the time this feat had been accomplished it began to grow dark, and Tip remembered he must milk the cow and feed the pigs. So he picked up his wooden man and carried it back to the house with him.
During the evening, by the light of the fire in the kitchen, Tip carefully rounded all the edges of the joints and smoothed the rough places in a neat and workman like manner. Then he stood the figure up against the wall and admired it. It seemed remarkably tall, even for a full-grown man, but that was a good point in a small boy's eyes, and Tip did not object at all to the size of his creation.
Next morning, when he looked at his work again, Tip saw he had forgotten to give the dummy a neck, by means of which he might fasten the pumpkinhead to the body. So he went again to the forest, which was not far away, and chopped from a tree several pieces of wood with which to complete his work.When he returned he fastened a cross~piece to the upper end of the body, making a hole through the center to hold upright the neck. The bit of wood which formed this neck was also sharpened at the upper end, and when all was ready Tip put on the pumpkinhead, pressing it well down onto the neck,and found that it fitted very well. The head could be turned to one side or the other, as he pleased, and the hinges of the arms and legs allowed him to place the dummy in any position he desired.
"Now, that," declared Tip, proudly, "is really a very fine man, and it ought to frighten several screeches out of old Mombi! But it would be much more life like if it were properly dressed."
To find clothing seemed no easy task,but Tip boldly ransacked the great chest in which Mombi kept all her keepsakes and treasures, and at the very bottom he discovered some purple trousers, a red shirt and a pink vest which was dotted with white spots. These he carried away to his man and succeeded, although the garments did not fit very well, in dressing the creature in a jaunty fashion. Some knit stockings belonging to Mombi and a much worn pair of his own shoes completed the man's apparel,and Tip was so delighted that he danced up and down and laughed aloud in boyish ecstasy.
"I must give him a name!" he cried. "So good a man as this must surely have a name. I believe," he added, after a moment's thought, "I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'"
- 出版社: 清华大学; 第1版 (2008年6月1日)
- 平装: 310页
- ISBN: 7302177694
- 条形码: 9787302177692
- 产品尺寸: 25.6 x 16.8 x 1.8 cm
- 产品重量: 522 g
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