《绿野仙踪》讲述的是多萝西·盖尔对她在埃姆姨妈和亨利叔叔的堪萨斯农场的生活感到不满，打算出走。这时，却被一场龙卷风刮到了一个陌生而神奇的国度——奥兹国，并迷失了回家的路。在那里，她陆续结识了没脑子的稻草人、没爱心的铁皮人和胆小的狮子，他们为了实现各自的心愿，互相帮助，携手协作，历尽艰险，遇到许多稀奇古怪的事情。最终，他们凭借自己非凡的智能和顽强的毅力，都如愿以偿地完成自己的心愿。
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.
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