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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, 1900
- Form
- Form Novel
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Accessible
- Reading time
- Reading time 3 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 25
- Length
- Length 39k words
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About the book
A farmhouse is torn whole off the Kansas prairie, spun through grey cyclone air, and dropped, with a thud, onto a witch. That accident carries Dorothy into Oz, and before the day is out she is wearing the silver shoes that had belonged to the witch her house just killed. L. Frank Baum imagined an American fairy tale that owed nothing to Grimm: a road paved yellow underfoot leading to a city walled in green glass, where the wizard everyone fears turns out to be a frightened little old man hiding behind a painted screen, working the machinery himself. The book's real engine is a joke that never stops being tender. The Scarecrow reasons better than most men with brains. The Tin Woodman weeps at every small cruelty long before anyone gives him a heart. The Cowardly Lion walks straight into danger the whole way there. Each of them wanted only proof of what they already carried, and so, it turns out, does Dorothy, who has to lose Kansas completely before she can want it back.