The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2021

Synopsis

Back in 1900 author L. Frank Baum says he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to please children of his time. He called it a modernized fairy tale, totally unlike older stories often filled with blood-curdling events. He left out the heartaches and nightmares. He pointed out that youngsters have long had a love of fantastic stories, but times change and they look forward more to entertainment that still has the wonderment and joy of time gone by. His fantastic creation of “Oz” provides exactly that.

About L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919), born in Chittenango, New York, was a journalist, dramatist, and writer best known for his fantasies about the land of Oz, the first being The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The success of this book led to his writing thirteen sequels. He wrote about sixty books in all, mostly for children.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn is a veteran broadcaster. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest Share of Audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John is a member of a Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hailey on July 26, 2017

Ah such fun! I don't think I'll read the rest of the series but I did really enjoy this.......more

Goodreads review by mark on September 27, 2014

Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal, 1998......more

Goodreads review by Luca on February 01, 2020

ENGLISH (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) / ITALIANO Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her aunts in a small farm in Kansas. Due to a tornado, she is catapulted with her house in a freaky village... Dorothy's journey, which I discovered at 38 thanks to my daughter and to the well-established habit of......more

Goodreads review by Anne on April 17, 2025

I've never liked the movie. And that's my shameful secret, Random Goodreader. It terrified me that the mean neighbor was going to have Toto put down. And there was never any resolution to that when Dorothy came back from Oz! The movie just glossed over the fact that as soon as Toto set foot in Kansas......more

Goodreads review by Riku on March 09, 2014

The Wizard of Oz as An Economic Parable: A Short Introduction This might be common knowledge or it might not be. Some economics textbooks claim this is a wonderfully esoteric nugget: The story of Oz was an economic parable. Take that, all you who said economics can't be fun. Redistributions of wealth......more

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