B2 · Upper intermediate

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Name: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: L. Frank Baum

by L. Frank Baum · complete original text

24 chapters
39,518 words
about 305 min
fantasy

A cyclone carries Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the magic Land of Oz. To get home, she must follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City with three new friends: a Scarecrow who wants a brain, a Tin Woodman who wants a heart and a Lion who wants courage.

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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room, and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no attic at all, and no cellar, except a small hole, dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap-door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.