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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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First published: 1900
Pages: 122

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Introduction
1:34
The Cyclone
6:24
The Council with the Munchkins
11:42
How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
11:22
The Road Through the Forest
7:58
The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
11:19
The Cowardly Lion
8:47
The Journey to the Great Oz
10:08
The Deadly Poppy Field
10:55
The Queen of the Field Mice
7:44
The Guardian of the Gates
10:56
The Emerald City of Oz
19:24
The Search for the Wicked Witch
20:22
The Rescue
6:54
The Winged Monkeys
10:32
The Discovery of Oz the Terrible
15:13
The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
5:40
How the Balloon Was Launched
6:34
Away to the South
6:46
Attacked by the Fighting Trees
5:54
The Dainty China Country
9:07
The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
5:34
The Country of the Quadlings
5:46
Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish
7:16
Home Again
1:00

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About this book

L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, and it almost immediately became the bestselling American children's book of the new century. Baum had been writing in various genres for years without much success. This one stuck. The story is the foundational one. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy and her dog Toto are swept up by a cyclone and dropped into the fantasy country of Oz, where the house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East and frees the Munchkins. Dorothy puts on the dead witch's silver shoes, which in the original book are silver rather than the ruby of the famous MGM film, and starts walking the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to ask the Wizard for help getting home.

Along the way she gathers her three companions: the Scarecrow who thinks he needs a brain, the Tin Woodman who thinks he needs a heart, and the Cowardly Lion who thinks he needs courage. They confront the Wicked Witch of the West. They discover the Wizard is a humbug. They each learn they already had what they were seeking. Baum's writing is plainer than later children's authors made standard, and there is a certain matter-of-fact strangeness to the original text that the famous film smoothed over. Read it as a starting point for the entire fourteen-book Baum Oz series, not as a novelization of the 1939 movie.

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.