The Wizard of Oz was an entertainment franchise before franchises were a concept. The original 14-book series by Baum is a rich tapestry of dark fantasy with bizarre characters and settings.

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In New York in 1900, a children’s author called L. Frank Baum published a short novel that was to become one of the most famous stories of all time. The Wizard of Oz immediately caught the ...

Eighty-five years ago, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke and their castmates brought the classic ... The Wizard of Oz, adapted from L. Frank Baum's children's book The Wonderful ...

Frank Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Baum's book inspired the 1939 classic starring Judy Garland, “The Wizard of Oz.” “Wicked” the movie, which stars Cynthia Erivo ...

But the story of Oz dates back much further than that. For nearly 125 years, the fantasy world of writer L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), has continued to ...

“The Wizard of Oz” and “The Emerald City of Oz” even appear in a Penguin Classics hardcover, albeit with only a scattering of illustrations, along with Baum’s 14th and last book about th ...

In fact, by the time the book entered the public domain ... Now considered a children’s classic, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” version illustrated by W.W. Denslow and published by Hill ...