Volume 47, Number 20 · December 21, 2000

The Oddness of Oz

By Alison Lurie

The year 2000 is the centenary of a famous and much-loved but essentially very odd children's classic: L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Those who recall the story only from childhood reading, or from the MGM film, have perhaps never realized how strange the original book and its sequels are.



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