[Pocket Edition] World Literature Classics Library - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Author: Frank Baum
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The Wizard of Oz is Baum's most famous and artistically accomplished work, a long fairy tale created by Americans, and a treasure of world children's literature. It was warmly welcomed by readers upon publication and topped the children's bestseller list for two consecutive years. It has been widely disseminated around the world in various art forms such as light opera, film, and animation. In 1939, Hollywood adapted The Wizard of Oz into a film, which was awarded the American Academy Award that year. In 1976, at a significant conference held by the American Children's Literature Association, experts listed The Wizard of Oz among the "Top Ten Greatest American Children's Literary Works" of the past two hundred years. It is a 20th-century fairy tale highly praised in the history of American children's literature. It is one of the books that has had an influence on 113 professors from various disciplines at the world-renowned Harvard University. My book is for those who are forever young in heart, no matter how old they are.—Frank Baum