Fiction · 1901
The Master Key
An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded upon the Mysteries of Electricity
The Master Key, first published in 1901, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
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- 1 — Rob’s Workshop
- 2 — The Demon of Electricity
- 3 — The Three Gifts
- 4 — Testing the Instruments
- 5 — The Cannibal Island
- 6 — The Buccaneers
- 7 — The Demon Becomes Angry
- 8 — Rob Acquires New Powers
- 9 — The Second Journey
- 10 — How Rob Served a Mighty King
- 11 — The Man of Science
- 12 — How Rob Saved a Republic
- 13 — Rob Loses His Treasures
- 14 — Turk and Tatar
- 15 — A Battle with Monsters
- 16 — Shipwrecked Mariners
- 17 — The Coast of Oregon
- 18 — A Narrow Escape
- 19 — Rob Makes a Resolution
- 20 — The Unhappy Fate of the Demon
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Subjects
- Adventure stories
- Fantasy literature
- Conduct of life — Juvenile fiction
- Voyages and travels — Juvenile fiction
- Youth — Conduct of life — Juvenile fiction
- Pirates — Juvenile fiction
- Thieves — Juvenile fiction
- Parent and child — Juvenile fiction
- Electricity — Juvenile fiction
- War — Juvenile fiction
- Physical sciences — Juvenile fiction
About this edition
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About the author
1856–1919 · Victorian
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was born in Chittenango, New York, and tried many trades — actor, playwright, shopkeeper, newspaper editor in South Dakota, travelling salesman — before writing for children. Father Goose (1899) was a success; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), illustrated by W. W. Denslow, was a greater one, and he wrote thirteen more Oz books. He spent his last years in Hollywood.
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