(TXT) View source # 2019-02-20 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum This book seems almost poetic at times. I particularly enjoyed chapter 11. The introduction states "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." The book however surprised me with a fair amount of violence. For example, in chapter 12, the tin woodsman kills 40 wolves and leaves their corpses in a pile for Dorothy to find when she wakes in the morning. My second grade teacher read a section of this book to the class over multiple days. I remember enjoying it, but i didn't recall the details. I do remember that around the age of 6 or 7 i was permitted to stay up late to watch the move, and i felt frightened by the Wicked Witch of the West. (HTM) Obligatory HHC music video: # Chapter 4 "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains." # Chapter 6 The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. "You people with hearts," he said, "have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. # Chapter 10 "I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life..." # Chapter 12 "We dare not harm this little girl," he said to them, "for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil. All we can do is to carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch and leave her there." So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, "I can still make her my slave, for she does not know how to use her power." # Chapter 16 So the Wizard unfastened his head and emptied out the straw. Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles. Having shaken them together thoroughly, he filled the top of the Scarecrow's head with the mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in place. When he had fastened the Scarecrow's head on his body again he said to him, "Hereafter you will be a great man, for I have given you a lot of bran-new brains." [Whole-groan pun there!] "How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done? It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they imagined I could do anything..." author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 (TXT) detail: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz LOC: PZ8.B327 Wh27 (DIR) source: gopher://gopher.pglaf.org/1/5/55/ tags: ebook,fantasy,fiction title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz # Tags (DIR) ebook (DIR) fantasy (DIR) fiction