The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. The Library of Congress has declared it -America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale-. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been adapted to other...

The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The protagonist is a boy named Rob Joslyn. Rob is an electrical experimenter whose father encourages him and sees that he -never lacked batteries, motors or supplies of any sort.- A -net-work sic] of wires soon ran throughout the house-. He loses track of the elaborately interconnected wires, and trying to get a cardboard house to light up, he -experimented in a rather haphazard fashion, connecting this and...