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The Master Key

The Master Key

An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees; It Was Written for Boys, But Others May Read It (Classic Reprint)

by L. Frank Baum
Paperback
Publication Date: 22/04/2018

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Excerpt from The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees; It Was Written for Boys, but Others May Read It The impossibilities of yesterday become the accepted facts of to-day.

Here is a fairy tale founded upon the wonders of electricity and written for chil dren of this generation. Yet when my readers shall have become men and women my story may not seem to their children like a fairy tale at all.

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ISBN:
9781440088865
9781440088865
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
22-04-2018
Publisher:
Forgotten Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
286
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x15mm
Weight:
0.39kg
L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum, born May 15 1856, was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of 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), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

On May 5, 1919, Baum suffered from a stroke. He died quietly the next day, nine days short of his 63rd birthday.His final Oz book, Glinda of Oz, was published on July 10, 1920, a year after his death. The Oz series was continued long after his death by other authors, notably Ruth Plumly Thompson, who wrote an additional nineteen Oz books.

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