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The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Wizard of Oz
Table of Contents
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The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
• Introduction
• 1. The Cyclone
• 2. The Council with the Munchkins
• 3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
• 4. The Road Through the Forest
• 5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
• 6. The Cowardly Lion
• 7. The Journey to the Great Oz
• 8. The Deadly Poppy Field
• 9. The Queen of the Field Mice
• 10. The Guardian of the Gates
• 11. The Emerald City of Oz
• 12. The Search for the Wicked Witch
• 13. The Rescue
• 14. The Winged Monkeys
• 15. The Discovery of Oz the Terrible
• 16. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
• 17. How the Balloon Was Launched
• 18. Away to the South
• 19. Attacked by the Fighting Trees
• 20. The Dainty China Country
• 21. The Lion es the King of Beasts
• 22. The Country of the Quadlings
• 23. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish
• 24. Home Again
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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 e 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