Twinkle and Chubbins: American Literature
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Chapter I The Trap
Chapter II Mister Woodchuck Captures a Girl
Chapter III Mister Woodchuck Scolds Twinkle
Chapter IV Mrs. Woodchuck and Her Family
Chapter V Mr. Woodchuck Argues the Question
Chapter VI Twinkle is Taken to the Judge
Chapter VII Twinkle is Condemned
Chapter VIII Twinkle Remembers
Chapter I Jim Crow Becomes a Pet
Chapter II Jim Crow Runs Away
Chapter III Jim Crow Finds a New Home
Chapter IV Jim Crow Becomes a Robber
Chapter V Jim Crow Meets Policeman Blue Jay
Chapter VI Jim Crow Fools the Policeman
Chapter VII Jim Crow is Punished
Chapter VIII Jim Crow Has Time to Repent His Sins
Chapter I The Picnic
Chapter II Prarie-Dog Town
Chapter III Mr. Bowko, the Mayor
Chapter IV Presto Digi, the Magician
Chapter V The Home of the Puff-Pudgys
Chapter VI Teenty and Weenty
Chapter VII The Mayor Gives a Luncheon
Chapter VIII On Top of the Earth Again
Chapter I Twinkle Captures the Turtle
Chapter II Twinkle Discovers the Turtle Can Talk
Chapter III The Turtle Tells of the Corrugated Giant
Chapter IV Prince Turtle Remembers His Magic
Chapter V Twinkle Promises to Be Brave
Chapter VI Twinkle Meets the Corrugated Giant
Chapter VII Prince Mud-Turtle Becomes Prince Melga
Chapter VIII Twinkle Receives a Medal
Chapter I Twinkle Enters the Big Gulch
Chapter II The Rolling Stone
Chapter III Some Queer Acquaintances
Chapter IV The Dancing Bear
Chapter V The Cave of the Waterfall
Chapter VI Prince Nimble
Chapter VII The Grasshoppers' Hop
Chapter I The Golden Key
Chapter II Through the Tunnel
Chapter III Sugaf-Loaf City
Chapter IV To the King's Palace
Chapter V Princess Sakareen
Chapter VI The Royal Chariot
Chapter VII Twinkle Gets Thirsty
Chapter VIII After the Runaway
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Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known by his pen name L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost works", 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, and he, Maud, and their four sons moved to the Humboldt Park section of Chicago, where Baum took a job reporting for the Evening Post. Beginning in 1897, he edited a magazine for advertising agencies for several years, focused on window displays in stores. The major department stores created elaborate Christmastime fantasies, using clockwork mechanisms that made people and animals appear to move. In 1900, Baum published a book about window displays in which he stressed the importance of mannequins in drawing customers. He also had to work as a traveling salesman.
In 1897, he wrote and published Mother Goose in Prose, a collection of Mother Goose rhymes written as prose stories and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Mother Goose was a moderate success and allowed Baum to quit his door-to-door sales job (which had had a negative impact on his health). In 1899, Baum partnered with illustrator W.W. Denslow to publish Father Goose, His Book, a collection of nonsense poetry. The book was a success, becoming the best-selling children's book of the year.
In 1900, Baum and Denslow (with whom he shared the copyright) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to much critical acclaim and financial success. The book was the best-selling children's book for two years after its initial publication. Baum went on to write thirteen more novels based on the places and people of the Land of Oz.
Two years after Wizard's publication, Baum and Denslow teamed up with composer Paul Tietjens and director Julian Mitchell to produce a musical stage version of the book under Fred R. Hamlin. Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1901 and based closely upon the book, but it was rejected. This stage version opened in Chicago in 1902 (the first to use the shortened title "The Wizard of Oz"), then ran on Broadway for 293 stage nights from January to October 1903. It returned to Broadway in 1904, where it played from March to May and again from November to December. It successfully toured the United States with much of the same cast, as was done in those days, until 1911, and then became available for amateur use. The stage version starred David C. Montgomery and Fred Stone as the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow respectively, which shot the pair to instant fame.
The stage version differed quite a bit from the book, and was aimed primarily at adults. Toto was replaced with Imogene the Cow, and Tryxie Tryfle (a waitress) and Pastoria (a streetcar operator) were added as fellow cyclone victims. The Wicked Witch of the West was eliminated entirely in the script, and the plot became about how the four friends were allied with the usurping Wizard and were hunted as traitors to Pastoria II, the rightful King of Oz. It is unclear how much control or influence Baum had on the script; it appears that many of the changes were written by Baum against his wishes due to contractual requirements with Hamlin. Jokes in the script, mostly written by Glen MacDonough, called for explicit references to President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Mark Hanna, Rev. Andrew Danquer, and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. Although use of the script was rather free-form, the line about Hanna was ordered dropped as soon as Hamlin got word of his death in 1904.
Beginning with the success of the stage version, most subsequent versions of the story, including newer editions of the novel, have been titled "The Wizard of Oz", rather than using the full, original title. In more recent years, restoring the full title has become increasingly common, particularly to distinguish the novel from the Hollywood film.
Baum wrote a new Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz, with a view to making it into a stage production, which was titled The Woggle-Bug, but Montgomery and Stone balked at appearing when the original was still running. The Scarecrow and Tin Woodman were then omitted from this adaptation, which was seen as a self-rip-off by critics and proved to be a major flop before it could reach Broadway. He also worked for years on a musical version of Ozma of Oz, which eventually became The Tik-Tok Man Of Oz. This did fairly well in Los Angeles, but not well enough to convince producer Oliver Morosco to mount a production in New York. He also began a stage version of The Patchwork Girl of Oz, but this was ultimately realized as a film.
