Mini Classics the Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum

Mini Classics the Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum

• Rediscover this wonderful world of Oz, along with the fantastic and familiar characters that inhabit it, in this fresh adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic by David Chauvel, featuring the breathtaking artwork of Enrique Fernandez. Originally published in France and winner of the prestigious 2005 Grand Prix de La Ville De Lyon Award for Illustration, this all-new adaptation of The Wizard of Oz is presented here for the first time in English.

Best known for his Oz novels, Lyman Frank Baum, was born on May 15, 1856, in Chittenango, New York, to Benjamin Ward Baum, a successful businessman who made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and Cynthia Stanton. He grew up on his parents' estate, Rose Lawn, and was tutored at home until, at the age of twelve, he joined the Peekskill Military Academy. Unable to withstand the school's harsh discipline and strenuous activity, he returned home after only two years. His father bought him a printing press and Baum, together with his younger brother, started his own newspaper, the Rose Lawn Home Journal, where he published articles, editorials, fiction and poetry. In 1880, his father built him a theatre in Richburg, and Baum started writing plays and directing his own acting company. While touring with his modestly successful play, The Maid of Arran, his theatre caught fire destroying not only the theatre but also the only copies of his manuscripts. On November 9, 1882, Baum married Maud Gage. They had four sons. After several failed business attempts, Baum started to write the nursery rhymes he had improvised for his sons. Mother Goose in Prose, a collection of Mother Goose prose stories, was published in 1897 and, two years later, he published the highly successful collection of nonsense poetry, Father Goose, His Book. In 1900, he published the children novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was an instant success. The novel tells the story of Dorothy, a farm girl who is blown by a cyclone to the magical land of Oz. There, she meets and becomes friends with many memorable characters such as the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow. A successful stage adaptation of the book opened in Chicago in 1902, and the 1939 musical film version became a cinema classic. Fuelled by his success, Baum went on to write more Oz novels such as Ozma of Oz (1907), Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908), and The Road to Oz (1909). Because of his lifelong love of theatre, he financed highly expensive musicals. Despite his success as a writer, Baum had to declare bankruptcy in 1911. After that, he started feverishly writing one Oz book per year: The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913), Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), The Scarecrow of Oz (1915), Rinkitink in Oz (1916), The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918), The Magic of Oz (1919), and Glinda of Oz, his last novel, published posthumously. On May 5, 1919, Baum suffered a stroke and died the next day at his home in Hollywood.

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ISBN 13	9781782098461
ISBN 10	1782098461
Title	Mini Classics the Wizard of Oz
Author	Frank L Baum
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd
Year published	2015-09-01
Number of pages	32
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