L. Frank Baum
Chicago, April, 1900.
The wonderful
wizard of Oz
1.
The Cyclone
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas
prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and
Aunt Em, who was t...
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L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) wrote 69 books beloved by children, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which became a classic movie.Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, near Syracuse, New York. His...
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Like the Wizard in his most famous creation, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz--or as it was retitled in later editions: The Wizard of Oz--L. Frank Baum was a magic manipulator of appearance and reality. Bau...
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In creating the Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum earned a special place in the history of juvenile literature. Children's books have just not been the same since Dorothy first went to the Emerald City. While...
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In the following essay, Street discusses Baum's intent to create a uniquely American fairy-tale, distinct from the European tradition, in which a sense of reality was paramount, and then examin...
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In the following essay, Gilman addresses Dorothy's possible unconscious desires in the film version of The Wizard of Oz and the fact that in Baum's Oz books Dorothy's desire to le...
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In the following essay, Flynn examines the Oz books as a consumerist boom.
… that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art.
(Walter Benjamin, “...
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In the following excerpt, Riley focuses on Baum's numerous Oz sequels.
To have pleased you, to have interested you, to have won your friendship, and perhaps your love, through my stories, is to...
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In the following essay, Ziaukas interprets The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as propaganda for the gold and silver standard in United States economics at the turn of the twentieth century.
“You shall ...
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In the following essay, McReynolds and Lips argue that Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is one of the few examples in American literature depicting a nontragic adventurous female protagonist, ...
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In the following essay, Anderson explores humor in Baum's Oz books.
L. Frank Baum was a humorist. Most readers agree with Russel B. Nye that “Oz is a land of laughter” (164),1 but...
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In the following essay, Griswold discusses parallels between Oz and the social state of America at the time Baum wrote his Oz books.
“Is it real or is it a dream?” This question has been...
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In the following essay, Culver examines Baum's depiction of the emerging consumerist culture of his time in both The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows, which Ba...
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In the following essay, Hudlin analyzes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in terms of the structure of Joseph Campbell's heroic myth.
L. Frank Baum's masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ha...
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In the following essay, Tuerk finds that, despite Baum's assertions that his book differed from the pattern of European fairy-tales, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in fact structured as a monomy...
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In the following essay, Chaston traces Baum's portrayal of the notion of “home” in his Oz books from the best possible place to a place of confinement and destruction.
At the conc...
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In the following essay, Franson discusses the possible influence of John Bunyan's allegory Pilgrim's Progress on Baum's writing of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
My interest in a pos...
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Questions:
1. What did the Scarecrow need from the Wizard of Oz"
a) clothes
b) to be fireproof
c) a brain- move ahead two spaces
d) nothing; he just wanted to come along on the trip
2. What did ...
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The Wizard of Oz is a classical 1930s film. The film is a wonderful, and sometimes scary, fantasy about a girl named Dorothy (Judy Garland) who is carried by a tornado from her Kansas home to the stra...
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When you think about the Wizard of Oz, the first thing that you probably think about is the character Dorothy because she was the hero. Dorothy's home is in Kansas where she lives with Aunt Em and Unc...
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Teaching The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 135th day of 2007. There are 230 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 15, 1942, wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states, limiting...
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No dancing down the yellow brick road for Zooey Deschanel, star of Sci Fi Channel's new Emerald City adaptation, "Tin Man." And no warbling "Over the Rainbow" a la Judy Garland, either."It's postmo...
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A minor mystery of American culture has been the public's enduring fascination with department store windows, especially at holiday time. Though computer-generated images can whoosh us to exotic vi...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
L(yman) Frank Baum
Critical Essay by Douglas Street
Wizard of Oz Questions
Today in history - May 15
