Essential Novelists - L. Frank Baum: Modernized Fairy Tale
- ISBN-10
- 8577771598
- ISBN-13
- 9788577771592
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 281
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-05-02
- Publisher
- Tacet Books
- Authors
- L. Frank Baum, August Nemo
Description
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of L. Frank Baum which are The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Emerald City of Oz. In 1900, Baum introduced readers to a fantastical land filled with witches, munchkins and a girl named Dorothy from Kansas in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum wrote about his intentions in the book's introduction: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to pleasure children today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out." Novels selected for this book: - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - The Emerald City of Oz This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
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