Wonderful Wizard of Oz

This beautiful new edition collects together the best of L. Frank Baum's Oz works, taking material from the very first 1900 publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and subsequent novels including Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and The Lost Princess of Oz.

About the author

Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856, Chittenango, New York, passing away in 1919. was a prolific children's author and playwright most famous for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Also an editor and some-time actor he created the series of books which added to the Oz canon in the early 1900s, although it's the original tale of Dorothy that has become one of the most successful and popular fantasies of all time, inspiring generations of adults and children with new movie and theatrical adaptations.Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. His publications include Grimm Legacies: The Magic Power of Fairy Tales, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales and a translation of the first edition of Grimm tales, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Summary

This beautiful new edition collects together the best of L. Frank Baum's Oz works, taking material from the very first 1900 publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and subsequent novels including Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and The Lost Princess of Oz.

Product details

• Authors: L. Frank Baum
• Assisted by: W. W. Denslow (Illustration), W.W. Denslow (Illustration), Flame Tree Studio (Editor), Jack Zipes (Foreword), Zipes Jack (Foreword)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781787552890
• ISBN: 978-1-78755-289-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Gothic Fantasy; Gothic Fantasy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, FICTION / Classics, Fiction, Gothic & Fantasy, Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum, Dorothy, Toto; classic stories