(1900 novel)
(lyman frank baum)
dorothy is a teenage girl living with her aunt + uncle on a kansas farm. her house is swept up in a tornado and she lands in oz. she meets the “good witch of the north”. the witch tells her that she must travel to the “emerald city” to meet the “wizard of oz” in order to return to kansas…
she meets the “scarecrow”, the “tinman”, and the “cowardly lion”.
the “cowardly lion” (aka “jerry garcia”) is able to talk with humans…
bert lahr as “zeke” / “the cowardly lion”
(jewish actor)
(1939 film)
(judith garland as “dorothy”)
(directed by ‘victor fleming’)
(“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (/ɑːz/) is an American children’s novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900)
It has since been reprinted on numerous occasions, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 musical film adaptation.
(the story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone)
The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated.
(the Library of Congress has declared it “America’s greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale”)
Its groundbreaking success and the success of the Broadway musical adapted from the novel led Baum to write thirteen additional Oz books that serve as official sequels to the first story.
Baum dedicated the book “to my good friend & comrade, My Wife”, Maud Gage Baum.
In January 1901, George M. Hill Company completed printing the first edition, a total of 10,000 copies, which quickly sold out.
(“the wonderful wizard of oz” sold 3 million copies by the time it entered the ‘public domain’ in ‘1956’)
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