The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

Posted on 17 November 2017 by L. Frank Baum

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved, essential classics Come along, Toto, she said We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home.With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger A much loved children s classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes. Read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) Author L. Frank Baum – kino-fada.fr Ah such fun I don t think I ll read the rest of the series but I did really enjoy this.Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal, 1998Once upon a time there lived a Golden Age gay icon, who whiled away her pre waxing years sitting atop a split rail fence in some dour, nondescript American Midwest landscape Her dreams of aoutrageously fierce existence in the big city wearing roller skates and one foot diameter afro wigs and dancing to Army of Lovers in between lines of blow were hemmed in on all sides by rusted farm equipment, NAPA Auto Parts Stores, and a lone, dejected Applebee s out on the turnpike Kansas didn t ev Once upon a ti...Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.Dorothy Gale and her little dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from Kansas all the way to the Land of Oz With a little help from the Witch of the North, Dorothy and Toto set off down a road paved with yellow bricks in search of the City of Emeralds and the Wizard of Oz, a man said to have the power to help Dorothy find her way back to Kansas The cyclone had set the house down, very gently for a cyclone Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.Dorothy Gale and her little dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from Kansas all the way to the Land of Oz With...ENGLISH The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ITALIANODorothy is a young girl who lives with her aunts in a small farm in Kansas Due to a tornado, she is catapulted with her house in a freaky village Dorothy s journey, which I discovered at 38 thanks to my daughter and to the well established habit of reading something to her before going to bed, begins in this way The thing that impressed me most about this wonderful story is that the title The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is rather misleading Yes, ENGLISH The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ITALIANODorothy is a young girl who lives with her aunts in a small farm in Kansas Due to a tornado, she is catapulted with her house in a f...The Wizard of Oz as An Economic Parable A Short IntroductionThis might be common knowledge or it might not be Some economics textbooks claim this is a wonderfully esoteric nugget The story of Oz was an economic parable Take that, all you who said economics can t be fun.Redistributions of wealth caused by unexpected changes in the price level are often a source of political turmoil From 1880 to 1896 the price level in the United States fell 23 percent This deflation was good for Haves cred The Wizard of Oz as An Economic Parable A Short IntroductionThis might be common knowledge or it might not be Some economics textbooks claim this is a wonderfu...Book 20 100 for 2015I really, really liked this book I honestly had pretty low expectations going into this book and thought it wouldn t compare at all to the greatness of the 1939 movie which is one of my favorite movies , but I was wrong It was one of the best children s classics that I ve ever read and I even loved how it wasn t that similar to the movie, so it kept me interested I also had a beautiful hardcover Puffin Classics edition, so that make the experience even better All in all, Book 20 100 for 2015I really, really liked this book I honestly had pretty low expectations going into this book and thought it wouldn t compare at all to the greatness of the 1939 movie which is one of my favorit...To Oz To Oz The film version of The Wizard of Oz is such an important part of American history that I most likely had it memorized by the time I was eight years old Between the music, images changing from black and white to color, and the defeat of a wicked witch, the movie was simply magical Being a tomboy, however, my reading interests as a child were never ...Dorothy, from Kansas, wherever that is lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, on the flat American prairie, the harsh Sun beating down from the gray sky, making everything turn gray the gray grass, house, clothes and especially the people, animals, are probably gray too, might seem the least likely place that she visits, that is real No trees, brooks, beautiful birds singing or anything colorful around the poor farm But our adventures begin when a tornado lifts unlucky Dorothy , her dog Dorothy, from Kansas, wherever that is lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, on the flat American prairie, the harsh Sun beating down from the gray sky, making everything turn gray the gray grass, house, clothes and especially the people, animals, are probably gray too, might seem the least likely place that she visits, that is real No trees, brooks, beautiful birds singing or anything colorful around the poor farm But our adventures begin when a ...This is one of the most bizarre books I ve ever read The fantasy elements are all rather ordinary There s a secret world beyond that of our own this is a standard trope of the genre C.S Lewis would soon follow suit and inspire later generations But the point is the Land of Oz is just weird Seems like a bland criticism, though the entire point of the plot is to have good triumph over evil But what is evil Beyond the actual name of the antagonist, the Wicked Witch of the West, we don t ac...

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17 November 2017

L. Frank Baum