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The Master Key

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  • 23 chapters
  • Reading level: 8th & 9th grade

"The Master Key" by L. Frank Baum is a novel published in 1901. When young electrical experimenter Rob Joslyn accidentally touches the Master Key of Electricity, he summons the Daemon of Electricity, who grants him nine extraordinary technological gifts over three weeks. Armed with devices that enable flight, invulnerability, and remote communication, Rob embarks on adventures that test whether he—and the world—are truly ready for such powerful inventions. His ultimate decision will determine humanity's technological future.

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  • Youth · Conduct of life
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The Master Key

THE
MASTER KEY

An Electrical Fairy Tale

BY
L. FRANK BAUM

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
F. Y. CORY

The BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS ยท INDIANAPOLIS

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Contents

  1. The Master Key
  2. Who Knows?
  3. Rob's Workshop
  4. The Demon of Electricity
  5. The Three Gifts
  6. Testing the Instruments
  7. The Cannibal Island
  8. The Buccaneers
  9. The Demon Becomes Angry
  10. Rob Acquires New Powers
  11. The Second Journey
  12. How Rob Served a Mighty King
  13. The Man of Science
  14. How Rob Saved a Republic
  15. Rob Loses His Treasures
  16. Turk and Tatar
  17. A Battle with Monsters
  18. Shipwrecked Mariners
  19. The Coast of Oregon
  20. A Narrow Escape
  21. Rob Makes a Resolution
  22. The Unhappy Fate of the Demon
  23. Transcriber's Note

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About this edition

This free edition of The Master Key by L. Frank Baum comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #45347, released 2014-04-07. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Children & Young Adult Reading, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Adventure.

Other editions: eBook #436 (most read).

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