The Master Key

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01 - Rob's Workshop
8:21
02 - The Demon of Electricity
8:20
03 - The Three Gifts
10:43
04 - Testing the Instruments
11:53
05 - The Cannibal Island
16:01
06 - The Buccaneers
15:59
07 - The Demon Becomes Angry
6:46
08 - Rob Acquires New Powers
10:32
09 - The Second Journey
6:00
10 - How Rob Served a Mighty King
19:35
11 - The Man of Science
9:16
12 - How Rob Saved A Republic
8:42
13 - Rob Loses His Treasures
12:52
14 - Turk and Tatar
20:00
15 - A Battle with Monsters
9:32
16 - Shipwrecked Mariners
11:49
17 - The Coast of Oregon
6:27
18 - A Narrow Escape
9:48
19 - Rob Makes a Resolution
3:40
20 - The Unhappy Fate of the Demon
14:31

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About this book

Rob turns his family's house into an electrical experiment, filling it with bells, alarms and telephones that delight his father and exasperate his mother. In his attic workshop, a muddled circuit produces a dazzling visitor who calls himself the Demon of Electricity. L. Frank Baum's 1901 tale for young readers builds its fantasy around the hope that inventions once thought impossible might eventually become ordinary tools.

The story carries this curiosity into adventure and questions of judgment. In the London passage, Rob shows a king spectacles that reveal a person's character, then uses a device that displays recent events to test a minister's loyalty. Such instruments give the boy extraordinary influence, while his casual manner adds humor to his encounters with authority. Readers interested in early visions of technology will find a children's fantasy that links scientific confidence with the responsibilities of using unusual powers.

About the author

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.