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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West. The book was first published in the United States in September 1900 by the George M. Hill Company. It had sold three million copies by the time it entered the public domain in 1956. It was often reprinted under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the successful 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the 1939 live-action film. The ground-breaking success of both the original 1900 novel and the 1902 musical prompted Baum to write thirteen additional Oz books, which serve as official sequels to the first story. Over a century later, the book is one of the best-known stories in American literature, and the Library of Congress has declared the work to be "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale".

Infobox

Author
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator
W. W. Denslow
Language
English
Series
The Oz books
Genre
Fantasy, children's novel
Publisher
George M. Hill Company
Publication date
September 1, 1900; 125 years ago (September 1, 1900)
Publication place
United States
Pages
263
OCLC
9506808
Followed by
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Text
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at Wikisource

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References

  1. Baum & Denslow 1900.
  2. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 11.
  3. Greene & Martin 1977, pp. 11–12.
  4. The New York Times 1900a, p. T13.
  5. The New York Times 1903, p. 9.
  6. Twiddy 2009.
  7. Library of Congress: Oz Exhibit 2000.
  8. Rogers 2002, pp. 73–94.
  9. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 14.
  10. MacFall 1956.
  11. Verdon 1991.
  12. Baum 2000, p. xlvii.
  13. New Fairy Stories 1900.
  14. Starrett 1954.
  15. Bloom 1994, p. 9.
  16. Baum 2000, pp. lv, 7.
  17. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 90.
  18. University of Minnesota 2006.
  19. Sweet 1944.
  20. Schwartz 2009, p. xiv.
  21. Baum 2000, p. 5.
  22. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 10.
  23. Gourley 1999, p. 7.
  24. Schwartz 2009, p. 75.
  25. Carpenter & Shirley 1992, p. 43.
  26. Taylor, Moran & Sceurman 2005, p. 208.
  27. Wagman-Geller 2008, pp. 39–40.
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  29. Kelly 2022, p. 54.
  30. Eriksmoen 2020.
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  36. Fokos 2006.
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  41. Baum 2000, p. 38; New Fairy Stories 1900.
  42. Riley 1997, p. 51.
  43. Delaney 2002.
  44. Riley 1997, p. 42.
  45. The New York Times 1900b, p. BR12.
  46. Berman 2003, p. 504.
  47. Culver 1988, p. 98.
  48. Starrett 1957.
  49. Culver 1988, p. 97.
  50. Nathanson 1991, p. 301.
  51. Abrams & Zimmer 2010, p. 105.
  52. Fisher 2000, p. 739.
  53. Bird 2012.
  54. Baum 2000.
  55. Greene 1974, pp. 10–11.
  56. Stillman 1996.
  57. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 176.
  58. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 20.
  59. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 17.
  60. Littlefield 1964, pp. 47–48.
  61. MacFall 1956; Baum & MacFall 1961.
  62. Watson 2000, p. 112.
  63. Greene & Martin 1977, Preface.
  64. Baum 2000, pp. ci–cii.
  65. Rutter 2000.
  66. Library of Congress: Oz Adaptations 2000.
  67. Martin 2015.
  68. Greene & Martin 1977, p. 169.
  69. Kappelle 2021, Chapter 9: Over the Rainbow.
  70. The Lost Art of Oz
    https://www.lostartofoz.com/about.html
  71. University of Texas at Austin 2020.
  72. Tuerk 2015, p. 22.
  73. Gutierrez 2010, p. 56.
  74. Ritter 1997; Velde 2002; Rockoff 1990.
  75. Dighe 2002, p. 2.
  76. Dighe 2002, p. x.
  77. Littlefield 1964, p. 50.
  78. Parker 1994, pp. 49–63.
  79. Sanders 1991, pp. 1042–1050.
  80. Gardner 2002.
  81. Jensen 1971, p. 283.
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