The Journal of American Culture, December 1st, 2007
Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books Richard Tuerk. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
L. Frank Baum wrote fourteen Oz novels between 1900 and 1920, all of then overshadowed by the 1939 classic film based on the first Oz book. In Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books, Richard Tuerk sets out to give the books the critical attention they deserve. Asserting that scholars have neglected and underrated Baum's writing, Tuerk regards the books as "richer and more complex than people usually admit" (208).
Tuerk considers the Oz books chronologically, devot...
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