The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum. Originally published in 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times. The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a tornado. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical which Baum adapted from his original story, led to Baum's writing thirteen more Oz books. The original book has been in the public domain in the US since 1956. Baum dedicated the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife", Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901, George M. Hill Company, the publisher, completed printing the first edition, which probably totaled around 35,000 copies. Records indicate that 21,000 copies were sold through 1900. Historians, economists and literary scholars have examined and developed possible political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	January 30, 2013
ISBN13	9781482325591
Publishers	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	106
Dimensions	6 × 152 × 229 mm · 154 g
Language	English

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