Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Dorothy Gale is settling into life in California when the ground literally opens up beneath her. In the devastating earthquake of 1908, she and a young boy named Zeb plunge deep into the earth, where the adventure she never sought becomes the journey she cannot escape. The cracked ground delivers them into a surreal underground realm of glass towers and the mysterious, vain Wizard she once knew in Oz. This is not the cheerful Technicolor Oz of the movies - it is stranger, darker, a place where our heroes must solve riddles and face threats that feel genuinely perilous. Only six of the book's twenty chapters take place in Oz itself; the rest unfolds in eccentric kingdoms beneath the earth, populated by the peculiar Mangaboos and other fantastical beings. Baum, writing shortly after the San Francisco earthquake and weary of his own creation, produced something uniquely unsettling - a children's book that captures the terror of the ground giving way, and the strange comfort of finding magic precisely when the world falls apart.
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“H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain.""How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.””
— L. Frank Baum
“Well," said Dorothy, "I was born on a farm in Kansas, and I guess that's being just as 'spectable and haughty as living in a cave with a tail tied to a rock. If it isn't I'll have to stand it, that's all.””
— L. Frank Baum
“Was Ozma once a boy?" asked Zeb, wonderingly. "Yes; a wicked witch enchanted her, so she could not rule her kingdom. But she's a girl now, and the sweetest, loveliest girl in all the world.””
— L. Frank Baum
“I try to answer every letter of my young correspondents; yet sometimes there are so many letters that a little time must pass before you get your answer. But be patient, friends, for the answer will surely come, and by writing to me you more than repay me for the pleasant task of preparing these books. Besides, I am proud to acknowledge that the books are partly yours, for your suggestions often guide me in telling the stories, and I am sure they would not be half so good without your clever and thoughtful assistance. L. FRANK BAUM Coronado, 1908.””
— L. Frank Baum
“They now separated to prepare for the sad ceremony; for whenever an appeal is made to law sorrow is almost certain to follow”
— L. Frank Baum
“To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.””
— L. Frank Baum
“There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time." said the Wizard"As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy.””
— L. Frank Baum
“But why fight at all, in that case?" asked the girl. "So I may die with a clear conscience," returned the Wizard, gravely. "It's every man's duty to do the best he knows how; and I'm going to do it.””
— L. Frank Baum
“Any friend of Dorothy," remarked the Cowardly Lion, "must be our friend, as well. So let us cease this talk of skull crushing and converse upon more pleasant subjects. Have you breakfasted, Sir Horse?””
— L. Frank Baum
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