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Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856, into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by his middle name, "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut.
Benjamin Baum was a wealthy German American businessman, originally a barrel maker, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Baum grew up on his parents' expansive estate, Rose Lawn, which he always remembered fondly as a sort of paradise. As a young child, he was tutored at home with his siblings, but at the age of 12, he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy. He was a sickly child given to daydreaming, and his parents may have thought he needed toughening up. But after two utterly miserable years at the military academy, he was allowed to return home. Frank Joslyn Baum, in his biography, To Please a Child, claimed that this was following an incident described as a heart attack, though there is no contemporary evidence of this (and much evidence that material in Frank J.'s biography was fabricated).
Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing. His father bought him a cheap printing press; which, with the help of his younger brother Henry (Harry) Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close, he used to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal. The brothers published several issues of the journal, which included advertisements, perhaps which they may have sold. Rose Lawn was located in Mattydale, New York. The house burned down in the 1950s, and is now the site of an abandoned skating rink. The only remains of Rose Lawn are a few concrete steps, located behind the building. By the time he was 17, Baum established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with friends.
At about the same time, Baum embarked upon his lifetime infatuation with the theater, a devotion which would repeatedly lead him to failure and near-bankruptcy. His first such failure occurred when a local theatrical company duped him into replenishing their stock of costumes, with the promise of leading roles that never came his way. Disillusioned, Baum left the theatre — temporarily — and went to work as a clerk in his brother-in-law's dry goods company in Syracuse. At one point, he found another clerk locked in a store room dead, an apparent suicide. This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, "The Suicide of Kiaros", first published in the literary journal, The White Elephant.
Yet Baum could never stay away from the stage long. He continued to take roles in plays, performing under the stage names of Louis F. Baum and George Brooks.
Originally a Methodist (albeit a skeptical one), Baum joined the Episcopal Church in Aberdeen to participate in community theatricals. Later, he and his wife, encouraged by Matilda Joslyn Gage, became a member of the Theosophical Society in 1892.[39] Baum's beliefs are often reflected in his writing. The only mention of a church in his Oz books is the porcelain one which the Cowardly Lion breaks in the Dainty China Country in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Baums believed that religious decisions should be made by mature minds and sent their older sons to "Ethical Culture Sunday School" in Chicago, which taught morality, not religion.
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Oz series
Frank Baum - The Wizard Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Land Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - Ozma Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Road To Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Emerald City Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Patchwork Girl Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - Tik-Tok Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Scarecrow Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - Rinkitink In Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Lost Princess Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Tin Woodman Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - The Magic Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
Frank Baum - Glinda Of Oz (read by Margaret Wooster)
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Oz series
http://rapidgator.net/file/a8942e551e260e105f1da3779f39258c/The_Wizard_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/556bf893eeffdaeb480f329796120b18/The_Land_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1610fde0b26fff09ec447011164f7d23/Ozma_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7d196dda7be67ace2d55a275d1b63f9f/Dorothy_And_The_Wizard_In_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b836b23a5760dfc1f328544f109d2137/The_Road_To_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/62a5ea29a761bcd870b3f55cd92ab67c/The_Emerald_City_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a1109e4fbdbb8b2d13d7d28ca1b53c24/The_Patchwork_Girl_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ba86658b748e75c247ef6164e2ab9688/Tik_Tok_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3e682ba6b91d171b21f3506ee9e42264/The_Scarecrow_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5cf50cbacfa867a206be043cbe32b14d/Rinkitink_In_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/812ea0b596d61ab5077d2c05fc53a13e/The_Lost_Princess_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a34ea3359989f266dac436ee3673a0ce/The_Tin_Woodman_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/18242130fde456fb5e1e6c1337be7b19/The_Magic_Of_Oz.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/51dc988b91db4429791669dca9a6b274/Glinda_Of_Oz.rar.html |
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