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The Wizard of Oz
In his fourteen books about Oz, three of which are collected here, Baum developed his vision of a socialist paradise. The Wizard of Oz (1900) introduces Dorothy, who arrives from Kansas and meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and a host of other characters. The Emerald City of Oz (1910) finds Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry coming to Oz just as the wicked Nome King is plotting to conquer its people. In Baum’s final novel, Glinda of Oz (1920), Dorothy and Princes Ozma try to prevent a battle between the Skeezers and the Flatheads. Tapping into a deeply rooted desire in himself and his loyal readers to live in a peaceful country which values the sharing of talents and gifts, Baum’s imaginative creation, like all great utopian literature, holds out the possibility for change.
“I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child—and mostly on account of the Oz books.”
—ELIZABETH GILBERT
PENGUIN    THREADS
With paper and pen or needle and thread, storytelling has many traditions. Penguin’s award-winning art director Paul Buckley presents Penguin Threads, a series of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions inspired by the aesthetic of handmade crafts with specially commissioned cover art. Jillian Tamaki’s embroidered artwork appears on The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emma by Jane Austen, and Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Rachell Sumpter’s hand stitched cover art appears on The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Sketched in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched, the final covers are sculpt embossed. Through story, style and texture, the Penguin Threads is an exciting chapter in Penguin’s long history of excellence in book design, for true lovers of the book, design, and handcrafted beauty.
PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION
THE WIZARD OF OZ
LYMAN FRANK BAUM was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856. In addition to publishing numerous children’s books, he worked as a journalist, traveling salesman, horticulturalist, chicken breeder, theater manager, producer, actor, playwright, owner of a general store, and show window designer. His first book for children was Mother Goose in Prose (1897). In 1900 he published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was a great success and inspired a musical theatrical version in 1902. Baum went on to write thirteen more Oz books, the last being Glinda of Oz, published posthumously in 1 ............

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