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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a public-domain English fantasy novel by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum. Themes include Courage, Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character), Cyclones, Dreams. Read clean chapter pages on Talezzo

Author: L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum Creator: Public Domain Source 24 chapters Updated Jun 19, 2026 37.5K views 1.9K likes 0 comments
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Novel Summary

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a public-domain English fantasy novel by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum, imported for Talezzo readers who want free online chapter pages and classic fiction discovery.

Subjects: Courage, Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character), Cyclones, Dreams, Fantasy literature, Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character), Good and evil, Home, Oz (Imaginary place), Scarecrow (Fictitious character from Baum).

Source record: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55. This page uses public-domain text metadata and stores the reading pages on Talezzo with clean SEO URLs.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 1: Home Again

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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.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter List

24 free chapter pages are available for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

1 Home Again 1 min 2 The Cyclone 6 min 3 The Council with the Munchkins 10 min 4 How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow 9 min 5 The Road Through the Forest 7 min 6 The Rescue of the Tin Woodman 10 min 7 The Cowardly Lion 7 min 8 The Journey to the Great Oz 9 min 9 The Deadly Poppy Field 9 min 10 The Queen of the Field Mice 7 min 11 The Guardian of the Gate 9 min 12 The Wonderful City of Oz 17 min 13 The Search for the Wicked Witch 17 min 14 The Rescue 6 min 15 The Winged Monkeys 9 min 16 The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible 13 min 17 The Magic Art of the Great Humbug 5 min 18 How the Balloon Was Launched 6 min 19 Away to the South 6 min 20 Attacked by the Fighting Trees 5 min 21 The Dainty China Country 7 min 22 The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts 5 min 23 The Country of the Quadlings 5 min 24 Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish 6 min

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