The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Baum, L. Frank
date: 0000-00-00
extent: 225517
format: text/plain
language: en
publisher: Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
source: wizoz.txt
subject: dorothy
subject: scarecrow
subject: woodman
subject: lion
subject: tin
subject: balloon
subject: launched
subject: myths
subject: fairy
subject: tales
subject: followed
subject: childhood
subject: ages
subject: baum
subject: frank
subject: wonderful
subject: wizard
subject: american
subject: literature
type: text
local mirror: baum-wonderful-282.txt
concordance: http://infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/concordance.pl
plain html: baum-wonderful-282.htm
sort title: Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The
full text: [pg/etext93/wizoz10.txt] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Contents --Introduction-- 1. The Cyclone 2. The Council with the Munchkins 3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow 4. The Road Through the Forest 5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman 6. The Cowardly Lion 7. The Journey to the Great Oz 8. The Deadly Poppy Field 9. The Queen of the Field Mice 10. The Guardian of the Gates 11. The Emerald City of Oz 12. The Search for the Wicked Witch 13. The Rescue 14. The Winged Monkeys 15. The Discovery of Oz the Terrible 16. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug 17. How the Balloon Was Launched 18. Away to the South 19. Attacked by the Fighting Trees 20. The Dainty China Country 21. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts 22. The Country of the Quadlings 23. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish 24. Home Again Introduction Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ…