L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy tale "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," and to a lesser extent his other "Oz" novels, have become a cultural building block that's been revisited time and time again ...

In 1900, at the turn of the century, author L. Frank Baum published a book that took imaginations by storm. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz proved an instant hit, with the story of Dorothy, a farmgirl from ...