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Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1905)

Here is a good online version, in very basic web format:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/wizoz10.html

This version, from Google Books, shows some of the illustrations. (It looks like many of the illustrations didn't show up when the book was scanned in,)

The Wizard of Oz


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"Oz has never been civilized"

I'm Melting, I'm Melting....Things I've Noticed and Liked!

Jennifer Prex said:

"'Wait a minute!' called the Scarecrow. He had been thinking what was best to be done, and now he asked the Woodman to chop away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch."
~page 81

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/11/if_i_only_had_a_brain.html

A New Look Into Something Old

"'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (Chapter 5)

Sarah Durham said:

"The Witch of the East was proud of those silver shoes, " said on of the Munchkins, "and there is some charm connected with them; but what it is we never knew." (ch. 2)

Kayla Lesko said:

"When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter that she would scream and press her hand over her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/12/the_boring_world_of_oz.html

Jered Johnston said:

"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." (Baum Ch. 12)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/12/oz.html

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