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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20040104
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IN 1900, the year "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was published, L. Frank Baum released another book as well -- one that has long been forgotten by most of those who ever knew of it and that was utterly eclipsed many years ago by the story of Dorothy and her three comrades.

Two books in a year was not particularly unusual for Baum, who was, after all, extraordinarily prolific and whose "oeuvre" includes (in addition to the 14 Oz books) such lesser-known works as "The Magical Monarch of Mo" and "Queen Zixi of Ix." His first book, published in 1886, was "The Book of the Hamburgs," a nonfiction ...

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