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Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0-688-09826-6 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 17 August, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Quixotic Return for Dorothy and the Wizard...
Comment: This is one of my favorite Oz books. We see Dorothy and the Wizard reunite, of course, but there are some interesting things going on. The Wizard has become a grand character; Baum has thrown his own nature into him and has made him real to us. The Wizard is now a resourceful, sometimes devious, sardonic, yet compassionate man. The story delves into the bizarre with the Glass City and its vegetable people (and their gruesome demise). The Gargoyles are quite disturbing in their emotionally hollow, wooden world. The Braided Man of Pyramid Mountain provides dry humor (here we see Baum's love of puns). Esentially this is one of the more original works of Baum, with quixotic new characters, and further development of those we already knew. I think perhaps Ozma comes into her own in this novel; she is what a queen should be, loyal to her subjects, but not above the law; she is regal, kind yet firm, passionate and loving. Baum has created a fearsome yet beautiful per! sonage in Ozma. This is a great read; I would suggest it to non-Ozophiles so that the MGM movie can be challenged, and the true Oz can be appreciated in its majesty of fantasy, humor, horror, and splendor.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Oz Books Should Be Praised the first fantasy series
Comment: L. Frank Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz, a little before WWI, the famous tale of Dorothy and her delightful friends that was immortalized in the 1939 film starring Judy Garland, did not stop writing the adventures of Dorothy. In later years, he wrote further exploits, as Dorothy returns to the magical realm time and again, meeting with her old friends the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, etc but encountering newer evils, i.e. Mombi the witch. The only other film drawn from these later novels is the 1980's film "Return to Oz" starring Faureza Balk as Dorothy, a less popular film. I highly recommend the Oz books, all of them, though you might want to check their chronological and consecutive order, for they are excellent works of fiction and fantasy, and in fact, the very first "fantasy" series of its time. Baum did what Tolkien would later do in his extensive Lord of the Rings novels and what C.S. Lewis did in his Narnia Chronicles, the first book being the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. These works of fantasy are excellent. In this particular story, we again meet Dorothy (formerly Pip, a young Kansas boy, a sort of male counterpart to Dorothy, had adventures in Oz) who has been living with her cousin Zeb in California. While riding on a buggy, an eathquake takes Dorothy and Zeb deep underground and they are transported back to Oz. We are introduced to characters that will appear in other Oz novels, including the benevolent enchantress and ruler of Oz, Ozma, who took over the land after the incident involving the phony Wizard in The Wizard of Oz. The rest is history. Dorothy will forever live in our hearts, and the Oz will forever be linked with innocence, with magic, and with childhood. I still enjoy reading these novels, and everyone should also, and be caught up once again in L. Frank Baum's immortal epic.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best in the series
Comment: While all of Baum's books are great, overall I think this was the one that I enjoyed the most. Like the very first book, the plot is simple. Dorothy gets pulled into a magical world against her will, and she wants to get home. She then goes through a series of adventures trying to achieve her goal. Although the book has "In Oz" in the title, Dorothy and the Wizard spend very little time actually in Oz. But don't let this put you off. The underground lands that they pass through are every bit as exciting and magical as the different lands actually in Oz. The ending (how they escape the underground world) is a bit weak, but the imaginative countries that they pass through and the adventures they have in each more than make up for this. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is a book that you will want to start reading again as soon as you finish, but don't. Go on to the next Oz book and then the next. While I believe that this was the best of the 14 original books in the series, they are all wonderful and I would recommend that everyone read the entire series from beginning to end. And then try the books written by some of the other authors. While none are as inspired as those written by Baum, many of them are very good.
And if you've read all the Oz books and are looking for other titles that are just as magical and just as inspired, try the Chronicles of Narnia, King Fortis the Brave or Abarat. All will introduce you to other magical worlds that are every bit as fun to visit as Oz.
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Title: Road to Oz, The (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0688099971 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 24 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Emerald City of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0688115586 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Ozma of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0688066321 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 24 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0688133541 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Marvelous Land of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0688054390 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 August, 1985 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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