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The Tin Woodman of Oz

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First published: 1918
Pages: 134

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00 - To My Readers
3:28
01 - Woot the Wanderer
13:30
02 - The Heart of the Tin Woodman
12:16
03 - Roundabout
12:28
04 - The Loons of Loonville
20:50
05 - Mrs. Yoop, the Giantess
17:59
06 - The Magic of a Yookoohoo
19:57
07 - The Lace Apron
8:01
08 - The Menace of the Forest
17:23
09 - The Quarrelsome Dragons
10:38
10 - Tommy Kwikstep
14:26
11 - Jinjur's Ranch
12:32
12 - Ozma and Dorothy
11:49
13 - The Restoration
16:06
14 - The Green Monkey
6:22
15 - The Man of Tin
13:23
16 - Captain Fyter
8:14
17 - The Workshop of Ku-Klip
7:19
18 - The Tin Woodman Talks to Himself
20:53
19 - The Invisible Country
24:29
20 - Over Night
9:08
21 - Polychrome's Magic
12:25
22 - Nimmie Amee
11:06
23 - Through the Tunnel
6:15
24 - The Curtain Falls
4:41

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About this book

The Tin Woodman of Oz was published in 1918 and is one of the strangest books in the Oz sequence. The Tin Woodman, who was born human as the Munchkin woodcutter Nick Chopper, has been living alone in his tin castle since the events of the first book. He suddenly remembers Nimmie Amee, the Munchkin girl he was engaged to before the Wicked Witch of the East enchanted his axe to chop off his limbs one by one, forcing him to replace each with tin. He decides to find her and propose.

The journey takes the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Munchkin boy Woot the Wanderer through several countries and into one of the most genuinely uncomfortable scenes in children's fiction, in which the Tin Woodman meets his own original head, kept on a shelf by the tinsmith Ku-Klip, and has a brief polite conversation with it. The novel also features Captain Fyter, a tin soldier whose history exactly parallels Nick Chopper's. The horror-comedy of the embodied-identity material is unique in the canon. Worth reading for the strangeness alone.

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.