L. Frank Baum

The Enchanted Island of Yew

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Produktbeschreibung

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I am going to tell a story, one of those tales of astonishing adventures that happened years and years and years ago. Perhaps you wonder why it is that so many stories are told of ""once on a time"", and so few of these days in which we live; but that is easily explained.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781421815800
• ISBN-10: 142181580X
• Artikelnr.: 22243239

Autorenporträt

Lyman Frank Baum, known popularly as L. Frank Baum, was an American children's author best known for his Land of Oz series. Born in 1856 in New York, Baum worked variously as a playwright and actor, businessman, and newspaper journalist before finding his greatest success in his forties when he began writing children's stories. Baum's first book for children was 1897's Mother Goose in Prose, a collection of stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes. His most famous and enduring work, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was published in 1900. In his lifetime, Baum authored more than 50 novels and over 80 short stories, many under pseudonyms such as Floyd Akers, Laura Bancroft, Edith Van Dyne, and Schuyler Staunton. Baum died at the age of 62 on May 6, 1919, following a stroke, in Hollywood, California. Glinda of Oz, the fourteenth and final book he wrote for the Oz series, was published a year later, in July of 1920.