RARE, ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz By L. Frank Baum (1969) [MAGNUM EASY EYE EDITION: LARGER TYPE FOR EASY READING] **SHIPS SAME DAY**

Oz #1-6

by L. Frank Baum

Vintage paperback

Genres: Fantasy, Classics, Childrens, Fiction

191 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1969

About the author

also wrote under the names:
* Edith van Dyne,
* Floyd Akers,
* Schuyler Staunton,
* John Estes Cooke,
* Suzanne Metcalf,
* Laura Bancroft,
* Louis F. Baum,
* Captain Hugh Fitzgerald

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema.
Born and raised in Chittenango, New York, Baum moved west after an unsuccessful stint as a theater producer and playwright. He and his wife opened a store in South Dakota and he edited and published a newspaper. They then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and published children's literature, coming out with the first Oz book in 1900. While continuing his writing, among his final projects he sought to establish a film studio focused on children's films in Los Angeles, California.
His works anticipated such later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

Reviews

[Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile · Rating 4 out of 5]

Link to my review on the original version: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Zoe Stewart (Zoe's All Booked)]

As always, I have no idea how to rate classics, I just know this is my favourite one 😂

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

I couldn't help but notice all the inaccuracies from the movie. Every now and then I'd go: "Whaaat? That is how that went??"
Also, there are some parallels between this story and "Fairytale" by Stephen King and everything that happened in Fairytale makes much more sense now.
Conclusion: I should have read this sooner.

[karina · Rating 4 out of 5]

absolutely magical

[m harvey · Rating 4 out of 5]

how whimsical!! it was very interesting to see the differences between book and movie, especially given the movie was a childhood favorite of mine. i also really liked the detail that the emerald city isn’t truly green, it only appears that way because of the glasses Oz forces everyone to wear …. i wonder what that could mean ….

[Mercer Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this series as a youngster and Malco and I have been reading it on and off over the past year. This edition is lovely, and collects a few of the first books of this series, which I enjoy. There's so much more to this story than people think—I particularly love reading it after reading The Dark Tower series, much of which (I feel) takes from this story.

[André · Rating 5 out of 5]

It would be too lengthy to go over every single reason of why this book is so ahead of its time, and so precious. By "this book" I mean the six books comprised within it: the first six books of the Oz universe. For that reason, I won't go over it. It's just to much information to write here. I can tell you, however, that you won't regret reading it/them.

[Laurie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the original story. Having seen the movie so many times, I really wanted to read the real story! A little gruesome (how the tin man became tin), but very entertaining!

[Adriana Fernandes · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐

[Brian Haas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book 1- Outstanding
Book 2- Surprisingly Good
Book 3- Decent
Book 4- Decent
Book 5- Not very good because there wasn't a plot
Book 6- Stopped caring and DNF

[Reba Weatherford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Books are as good as they ever were, but I definitely missed Baum's forwards. Also, the color on the cover is rubbing off something crazy, so not happy about this printing.

[Jacob Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great adventure with so many life lessons. Home is where you belong, you need to believe in yourself, and true courage comes from being afraid.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love Frank steadily becoming more and more socialist throughout each book

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a lovely classic.

[Shalom Kester · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have loved the movie since I first saw it as a child, but the book is much richer and I love it even more!

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

I came to this book too late in my life path. However, I look forward to reading it to my grandchildren, should I be so blessed. After all, it was written for them.

[Shaoroun · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked about half the stories. It dragged on with recapping the previous stories and the protagonists could be quite full of themselves at times.

[Souly Peerage · Rating 4 out of 5]

A classic fantasy tale. Full of magic, friends and personal growth. It aged really nice and is today as good a goodnightstorie as it was when the book first came out.