The Oz Collection
L. Frank Baum
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(, Aug. 21, 2013)
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhoodthrough the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome andinstinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestlyunreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have broughtmore happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may nowbe classed as âhistoricalâ in the childrenâs library; for the time hascome for a series of newer âwonder talesâ in which the stereotypedgenie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horribleand bloodâcurdling incidents devised by their authors to point afearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality;therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wondertales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.Having this thought in mind, the story of âThe Wonderful Wizard ofOzâ was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to beinga modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy areretained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.L. Frank Baum"The Oz Collection" contains the fourteen Oz Books: ⢠The Wonderful Wizard of Oz⢠The Marvelous Land of Oz⢠Ozma of Oz⢠Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz⢠The Road to Oz⢠The Emerald City of Oz⢠The Patchwork Girl 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