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The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (Classics of Science Fiction)
The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale - Classics of Science Fiction Author:L. Frank Baum This book is a testament to the heartfelt imagination of one of America’s finest authors in the genres of fantasy and children’s literature. “Here is a fairy tale founded upon the wonders of electricity and written for children of this generation. Yet when my readers shall have become men and women my story may not seem to thei... more »r children like a fairy tale at all. Perhaps one, perhaps two -- perhaps several of the Demon's devices will be, by that time, in popular use. Who knows?”
Building on the excitement of an industrializing world, immersed in the wonders of science and magic alike, The Master Key is a story of a boy who dares to dream. Young Rob Joslyn is a skilled engineer whose experiments with electricity delight and astound his father. One day, a spark reveals a figure known as the Daemon of Electricity, who offers the boy three gifts for each of the next three weeks.« less