The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
1856 – 1919
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum is a children's novel written in 1900. When a cyclone sweeps young Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz, she discovers only one way home: she must destroy the Wicked Witch of the West. Joined by a Scarecrow seeking brains, a Tin Woodman wanting a heart, and a Cowardly Lion desiring courage, Dorothy follows the yellow brick road to seek help from the mysterious Wizard of Oz. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Courage — Juvenile fiction
- Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character) — Juvenile fiction
- Cyclones — Juvenile fiction
- Dreams — Juvenile fiction
- Fantasy literature
- Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character) — Juvenile fiction
- Good and evil — Juvenile fiction
- Home — Juvenile fiction
- Oz (Imaginary place) — Juvenile fiction
- Scarecrow (Fictitious character from Baum) — Juvenile fiction
- Tin Woodman (Fictitious character) — Juvenile fiction
- Toto (Fictitious character) — Juvenile fiction
- Witches — Juvenile fiction
- Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character) — Juvenile fiction