The Wizard of Oz

By Baum, Frank L.

Book Id: WPLBN0000633057
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Wizard of Oz
Author:	Baum, Frank L.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Baum, F. L. (n.d.). The Wizard of Oz. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Wizard of Oz, 1 -- L. Frank Baum, 1