While we associate the Land of Oz with Dorothy Gale, the girl from Kansas, the central figure of Baum's world is actually Princess Ozma, who doesn't even show up until the second book, The Marvelous Land of Oz.īaum had not intended to write a sequel, but after other books failed and after The Wizard of Oz was a huge success as a stage play, he decided to return to his fairy land. MGM gladly changed up many elements of Baum's first book (it doesn't even use the full title, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), and never bothered adapting any of his subsequent 14 canonical Oz books. Frank Baum's original Oz novels are weird, especially if your familiarity with the Land of Oz comes from the classic 1939 movie musical.
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