2012
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This first of two volumes comprising L. Frank Baum's complete series of Oz books. The stories included in this collection are "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz", "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", "The Road to Oz", "The Emerald City of Oz", and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", all published between the years 1900-1914. Volume 2, the companion volume to this compilation, includes the rare "Little Wizard Stories of Oz", "Tik-Tok of Oz", "The Scarecrow of Oz", "Rinkitink in Oz", "The Lost Princess of Oz", "The Tin Woodman of Oz", "The Magic of Oz", "Glinda of Oz". The "Little Wizard Stories of Oz", seldom published anywhere, marked the break between the first and second set of tales, which Baum wrote during the years 1914-1920. The self-proclaimed Royal Historian of Oz, Baum was succeeded by others who assumed the title, resulting in a Canon of some 40 Oz titles, proper. Dozens of other Oz books have been written, in various languages around the world.
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Author
L. Frank Baum
Author · 72 books
also wrote under the name Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers, Schuyler Staunton, John Estes Cooke, Suzanne Metcalf, Laura Bancroft, Louis F. Baum, Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald Lyman Frank Baum was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works (55 novels in total, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.
