It was a dark and stormy night when our unnamed narrator and his illiterate Mexican bunkmate Juan Romero begin to hear mysterious drums... what happens next is indescribable!
A very slightly updated version of the traditional Norwegian folk tale from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book from 1889. The Blue Fairy Book was the first of 12 Fairy Books to be written and published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, though Lang is credited as the creator of these books, it is worth noting that almost all of the actual translation and writing of the stories was done by others - most notably his wife, Nora.
This story is classified as ATU 425A in the ATU tale type classification system, which is the “Search for the Lost Husband” type.
A new telling of the original text of L. Frank Baum's classic children's* fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Modern audiences may be surprised both by just how different the Judy Garland movie** was from the source text, and by how enjoyable the book is for listeners of all ages.
*also suitable for adults
**this audiobook does not synchronize with any psychedelic rock albums from the 1960s or 70s
