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The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

1900 · United States · Novel · ~160 pages

A Kansas farm girl is swept by a cyclone into the land of Oz and follows a road of yellow brick, gathering a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, to beg a humbug wizard for a way home. America’s first great fairy tale.

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Why read it

Warmer, stranger, and darker than the famous film, the book that taught America to dream in fantasy. A short, bright adventure with a surprising heart.

Themes
SettingKansas and the Land of Oz

The turn-of-the-century American Midwest and a fairy-land beyond it, where ordinary courage, brains, and heart prove greater than any wizardry.

About the author

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) set out to write a modern, American fairy tale free of European moralising, and created a fantasy world so beloved he spent the rest of his life returning to it.