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  THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

  L. FRANK BAUM

  (1856–1919)

  Contents

  The Oz Works

  THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

  THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ

  THE WOGGLE-BUG BOOK

  OZMA OF OZ

  DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ

  THE ROAD TO OZ

  THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ

  THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ

  LITTLE WIZARD STORIES OF OZ

  TIK-TOK OF OZ

  THE SCARECROW OF OZ

  RINKITINK IN OZ

  THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ

  THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ

  THE MAGIC OF OZ

  GLINDA OF OZ

  THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ by Ruth Plumly Thompson

  Other Fantasy Works

  THE MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO

  DOT AND TOT OF MERRYLAND

  AMERICAN FAIRY TALES

  THE MASTER KEY: AN ELECTRICAL FAIRY TALE

  THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS

  THE ENCHANTED ISLAND OF YEW

  QUEEN ZIXI OF IX

  JOHN DOUGH AND THE CHERUB

  THE SEA FAIRIES

  SKY ISLAND

  Non-Fantasy Works Under Baum’s Name

  THE DARING TWINS

  PHOEBE DARING

  The Pseudonym Works – Fantasy

  TWINKLE AND CHUBBINS

  POLICEMAN BLUEJAY

  The Pseudonym Works – Non-Fantasy

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES ABROAD

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES AT MILLVILLE

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES AT WORK

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES IN SOCIETY

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES AND UNCLE JOHN

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES ON VACATION

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES ON THE RANCH

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES OUT WEST

  AUNT JANE’S NIECES IN THE RED CROSS

  THE FLYING GIRL

  THE FLYING GIRL AND HER CHUM

  MARY LOUISE

  MARY LOUISE IN THE COUNTRY

  MARY LOUISE SOLVES A MYSTERY

  MARY LOUISE AND THE LIBERTY GIRLS

  MARY LOUISE ADOPTS A SOLDIER

  THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN ALASKA

  THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN PANAMA

  THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN EGYPT

  THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN CHINA

  THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN YUCATAN

  THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN THE SOUTH SEAS

  THE FATE OF A CROWN

  DAUGHTERS OF DESTINY

  TAMAWACA FOLKS: A SUMMER COMEDY

  ANNABEL, A NOVEL FOR YOUNG FOLK

  THE LAST EGYPTIAN

  Shorter Fiction

  OUR LANDLADY

  MOTHER GOOSE IN PROSE

  ANIMAL FAIRY TALES

  UNCOLLECTED SHORT STORIES

  The Short Stories

  LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

  LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

  The Poetry Collections

  BY THE CANDELABRA’S GLARE

  FATHER GOOSE: HIS BOOK

  THE ARMY ALPHABET

  THE NAVY ALPHABET

  FATHER GOOSE’S YEAR BOOK

  The Poems

  LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

  LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

  The Plays

  THE MAID OF ARRAN

  THE WIZARD OF OZ

  THE MAID OF ATHENS

  THE KING OF GEE-WHIZ

  THE PIPES O’ PAN

  Baumiana

  LIST OF BAUM RELATED ARTICLES AND PIECES

  The Biography

  IN OTHER LANDS THAN OURS by Maud Gage-Baum

  © Delphi Classics 2012

  Version 1

  THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

  L. FRANK BAUM

  By Delphi Classics, 2012

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  The Oz Works

  Baum’s birthplace, Chittenango, New York

  Baum, aged 12, dressed in his cadet uniform

  1901 promotional poster for L. Frank Baum’s books

  THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

  L. Frank Baum’s most famous book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, appeared in 1900, published by George M. Hill Company, and illustrated by noted Chicago artist and caricaturist, W. W. Denslow. He had worked with Baum on two earlier books, including the successful, Father Goose: His Book, published a year earlier. However, after Baum and Denslow quarrelled, they parted ways and John R. Neill became illustrator for the remainder of Baum’s Oz tales. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was an immediate success, selling out its initial run of 10,000 copies and quickly selling out additional printings. Baum’s classic tale of a young Kansas girl whisked off by a tornado to a magical land both enchanted and enchanting, continues to engage and thrill readers of all ages more than a century later, so popular that it led to a plethora of Oz books written at first by Baum and then by others. Its enduring popularity prompted numerous stage and film adaptations, most spectacularly the 1939 MGM Technicolor motion picture starring Judy Garland, which altered some of Baum’s story, but brought to vivid life its spirit.

  A first edition copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  CONTENTS

  Introduction

  1. The Cyclone

  2. The Council with the Munchkins

  3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow

  4. The Road Through the Forest

  5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman

  6. The Cowardly Lion

  7. The Journey to the Great Oz

  8. The Deadly Poppy Field

  9. The Queen of the Field Mice

  10. The Guardian of the Gate

  11. The Wonderful City of Oz

  12. The Search for the Wicked Witch

  13. The Rescue

  14. The Winged Monkeys

  15. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible

  16. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

  17. How the Balloon Was Launched

  18. Away to the South

  19. Attacked by the Fighting Trees

  20. The Dainty China Country

  21. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts

  22. The Country of the Quadlings

  23. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish

  24. Home Again

  Poster for MGM’s classic 1939 motion picture starring Judy Garland

  Poster for 1939 MGM motion picture starring Judy Garland

  Judy Garland (as Dorothy Gale) reading The Wizard of Oz

  Publicity still for 1939 MGM movie

  Lobby Card for 1939 MGM film

  Wizard of Oz sheet music from the 1939 film version

  Poster promoting the release of the MGM movie in Spain, 1945

  Sheet music from 1904

  1903 Poster for Fred R. Hamlin’s musical

  1903 poster for Fred R. Hamlin’s Musical

  A scene from Fred R. Hamlin’s 1903 musical

  A songbook from the Fred R. Hamlin musical, 1903

  Publicity photo for a Wizard of Oz production by the Jack Singers, early 1900s.

  Publisher’s advertising poster from 1901

  1941 Spanish edition published in Buenos Aires

  A 1940 Dutch translation

  A 1940 Swedish translation

  An Italian “movie” edition, publ
ished in 1944

  A novelty edition from 1934 published by Blue Ribbon Books

  Introduction

  Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

  Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

  Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.

  L. Frank Baum

  Chicago, April, 1900.

  1. The Cyclone

  Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar--except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.

  When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.

  When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.

  Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.

  It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.

  Today, however, they were not playing. Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual. Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in her arms, and looked at the sky too. Aunt Em was washing the dishes.

  From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm. There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.

  Suddenly Uncle Henry stood up.

  “There’s a cyclone coming, Em,” he called to his wife. “I’ll go look after the stock.” Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.

  Aunt Em dropped her work and came to the door. One glance told her of the danger close at hand.

  “Quick, Dorothy!” she screamed. “Run for the cellar!”

  Toto jumped out of Dorothy’s arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to follow her aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.

  Then a strange thing happened.

  The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.

  The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone. In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

  It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily. After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.

  Toto did not like it. He ran about the room, now here, now there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still on the floor and waited to see what would happen.

  Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him. But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strong pressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could not fall. She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.

  Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf. At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring. At last she crawled over the swaying floor to her bed, and lay down upon it; and Toto followed and lay down beside her.

  In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind, Dorothy soon closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.

  2. The Council with the Munchkins

  She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.

  The little girl gave a cry of amazement and looked about her, her eyes growing bigger and bigger at the wonderful sights she saw.

  The cyclone had set the house down very gently--for a cyclone--in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived
so long on the dry, gray prairies.

  While she stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen. They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older.

  Three were men and one a woman, and all were oddly dressed. They wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkled sweetly as they moved. The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders. Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds. The men were dressed in blue, of the same shade as their hats, and wore well-polished boots with a deep roll of blue at the tops. The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards. But the little woman was doubtless much older. Her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly.

  When these people drew near the house where Dorothy was standing in the doorway, they paused and whispered among themselves, as if afraid to come farther. But the little old woman walked up to Dorothy, made a low bow and said, in a sweet voice:

  “You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.”