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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · English text · 40,229 words

A cyclone carries Dorothy from Kansas to Oz, where she travels toward the Emerald City with companions seeking courage, a heart, and a brain. Their journey turns a series of strange encounters into a story about friendship and self-trust.

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Background

Baum created a distinctly American fairyland, drawing on contemporary life while using the episodic structure of a quest. The travelers’ needs are also tests of what they already possess.

Reading notes

  • Track how each companion acts before receiving the thing he seeks.
  • Notice the difference between appearance and reality in Oz.
  • Read the road as a sequence of shared problems, not just a route to the Wizard.

Version note

Prepared from the English text supplied in the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press bilingual anthology. The site owner confirmed publication permission for this source edition on 21 October 2026. Publisher and edition details remain recorded in the rights audit.