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  title info:
    title: Finding Oz
    sub title: how L. Frank Baum discovered the great American story
  name:
    name part: Schwartz, Evan I.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The remarkable story behind one of the world's most enduring and best-loved books. Offering new insights into the true origins and meaning of L. Frank Baum's 1900 masterwork, author Schwartz delves into the personal turmoil and spiritual transformation that fueled Baum's fantastical parable of the American Dream. Before becoming an impresario of children's adventure tales, Baum failed at a series of careers and nearly lost his soul before setting out on a journey of discovery that would lead to the Land of Oz. Drawing on original research, Schwartz debunks popular misconceptions and shows how the people, places, and events in Baum's life gave birth to his unforgettable images and characters. A narrative that sweeps across late-nineteenth-century America, Finding Oz ultimately reveals how failure and heartbreak can sometimes lead to redemption and bliss, and how one individual can ignite the imagination of the entire world.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Prologue: America's adventure -- No place like home -- An unexpected journey -- A girl in a man's world -- Heart of a tin man -- Roadblock -- The mythic oilcan -- Witch-hunting -- Frontier of hope and fear -- The story store -- The brainless and the heartless -- Field of blood -- The golden path -- The glimmering city -- The wizard's challenge -- The witch is dead -- This one story -- Home again -- Epilogue: a great awakening.
  note: Evan I. Schwartz.
  note: Map on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [322]-355) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
      name part: 1856-1919
  subject:
    topic: Oz (Imaginary place)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy in literature
  subject:
    topic: Mythology in literature
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fantasy fiction, American
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS3503.A923 W5987 2009
  classification: 813/.4
  identifier: 9780547055107
  identifier: 0547055102
  identifier: 2008053296
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 081216
    record change date: 20151110104432.0
    record identifier: in00002447839