The 14-book series centered around the world of Oz and its lore is the basis for any live-action adaptations. Here it is, in ...

Long before Wicked reimagined the Witch of the West as a dissident resisting fascism, Oz was a hotbed of political commentary ...

Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (1900), with illustrations by W.W. Denslow. That book, moreover, is the seedbed for 13 more volumes by the “Royal Historian of Oz” (with ...