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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Illustrated First Edition): th Anniversary OZ . I never realized there were 15 some-odd books in the entire Oz series, fun.
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The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie.

The Wizard of Oz is a beloved American classic. This edition, with fine illustrations from internationally acclaimed artist Lizbeth Zwerger, has been reformatted as a readaloud edition. Convert currency.

Add to Basket. Book Description Clarkson. Condition: New. Seller Inventory NEW More information about this seller Contact this seller. Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory EX Seller Inventory E Seller Inventory M Frank Baum. Publisher: Clarkson. Potter , He lasted only two years at Peekskill Military School, and went on to Syracuse Classical School, without, apparently, graduating. His mother-in-law, Matilda Joslyn Gage, was a prominent feminist and a keen Theosophist; she had not wanted her daughter to leave Cornell to marry an actor.

But Maud did anyway, and when she became pregnant Frank left the theatre. Drought and depression caused the store to fail; in Baum took over a weekly newspaper, calling it the Saturday Pioneer , and by it, too, was failing.

The two-and-a-half-year Dakota interval gave him, however, the Plains flavor crucial to the myth of Dorothy and the Wizard; gray desolation and hardscrabble rural survival compose the negative of which Oz is the colorful print. Endless chains of jewels seemed strung and wound about it. The Palace of Flowers held up a great crystal of light glowing against the dark blue of the sky, towers and domes were crowned and diademed, thousands of jewels hung among the masses of leaves, or reflected themselves, sparkling in the darkness of the lagoons, fountains of molten jewels sprung up, and flamed and changed.

A note of hollowness, of dazzling fraud, of frontier fustian and quackery taints the Wizard in the first of the many Oz books, before a plethora of wonders turns him into a real sorcerer. Hill was overwhelmed by orders, and went back to press four times, for a total of ninety thousand copies.

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In , the George M. Montgomery and Fred A.

Stone, who had played the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow in the Mitchell production. The book was dedicated to them and loaded with patter and puns suitable to their routines. Despite frail health angina, gallstones, inflamed appendix , Baum was a whirlwind of activity until his death, at the age of sixty-two.

After his death, the series was extended by Ruth Plumly Thompson, who between and added nineteen titles; then, briefly, by John R. The M-G-M motion picture improves upon the book in a number of ways.

It eliminates, for example, the all too Aesopian and, prior to computer graphics, probably unfilmable episode wherein the Queen of the mice and her many minions transport the Cowardly Lion out of the poppy bed where he has fallen asleep; instead, it retrieves from the musical the effective stage business that had a sudden snowstorm annul the spell of the poppies.

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As a writer, Baum rarely knew when to quit, unfurling marvel after marvel while the human content—a content shaped by nonmagical limitations—leaked away. The Hollywood film begins with the human, gray Kansas and, unlike the book, plants on that drab land all the actors who will dominate Oz—the three farmhands, the wicked Almira Gulch on her bicycle, Professor Marvel in his flimsy van.

They are Kansans, and Dorothy returns to them. The Scarecrow already has brains, the Tin Woodman is sentimental to a fault, the Lion has courage enough, but until the Wizard bestows external evidences in the movie more wittily than in the book they feel deficient.