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00 - Introduction - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L Frank Baum · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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Speaker 1: Introduction. Folklore, legends, myths, and fairy tales have followed childhood
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Speaker 1: throughout the ages. For every healthy youngster has a wholesome
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Speaker 1: and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous, and manifestly unreal.
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Speaker 1: The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more
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Speaker 1: happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet
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Speaker 1: the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may
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Speaker 1: now be classed as historical in the children's library. For
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Speaker 1: the time has come for a series of newer wonder
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Speaker 1: tales in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated,
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Speaker 1: together with all the horrible and blood curdling incidents devised
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Speaker 1: by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
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Speaker 1: Modern education includes morality. Therefore, the modern child seeks only
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Speaker 1: entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all
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Speaker 1: disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of
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Speaker 1: the Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to police checks.
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Speaker 1: Enough to day it aspires to being a modernized fairy
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Speaker 1: tale in which the wonder men enjoy are retained and
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Speaker 1: the heartaches and nightmares are left out.