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  • Published: 3 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9781101078167
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz





Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CLASIC FILM

“Follow the yellow brick road!”

Since it first appeared in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has brought joy to generations. In it, a girl's dream world comes to life as the cyclone lifts Dorothy from Kansas, depositing her in the enchanted land of the Munchkins. There she meets the famous Oz characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. Her adventures along the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City and the Wizard himself evoke the rich, universal appeal of a classic fairy tale.

  • Published: 3 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9781101078167
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum was born in New York in 1856. The Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was based on a story he used to tell his own children. It became an international bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a stage play (1902) and a film starring Judy Garland (1939). Baum wrote thirteen further Oz books, alongside numerous other novels, short stories, scripts and poems. After his death in 1919, his publishers carried on producing Oz stories and didn’t stop until 1963.

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