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'''Lyman (long for "L.") Frank Baum''' (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, best known for ''[[ |
'''Lyman (long for "L.") Frank Baum''' (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, best known for ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'': a work so popular that, in fact, he was chained to the series and wrote Oz book after Oz book while longing to write ''anything'' else. Which helps explain what a [[Continuity Snarl]] the Oz books are. Before being utterly trapped by Oz, he wrote a number of other works, such as ''The Life and Adventures of [[Santa Claus]]''. |
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=== Works by L. Frank Baum with their own trope pages include: === |
=== Works by L. Frank Baum with their own trope pages include: === |
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* [[Land of Oz]] series, including |
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** ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' |
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** ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'' |
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=== Other works by L. Frank Baum provide examples of: === |
=== Other works by L. Frank Baum provide examples of: === |
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* [[Cameo Prop]]: Baum died before MGM's version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz ( |
* [[Cameo Prop]]: Baum died before MGM's version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' was filmed, but, in a remarkable coincidence, Frank Morgan as Professor Marvel wore a secondhand coat that turned out to have belonged to the author. (It's true; [[Snopes]] [http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozcoat.asp confirms it].) |
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* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: A lot of his fictional countries, but especially Mo in ''The Magical Monarch of Mo''. For point of reference, this is a place where the treatment for sore throat is to remove a person's neck, turn it inside out, put it out to ''[ |
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: A lot of his fictional countries, but especially Mo in ''The Magical Monarch of Mo''. For point of reference, this is a place where the treatment for sore throat is to remove a person's neck, turn it inside out, put it out to ''[[wikipedia:Curing (food preservation)|cure]]'', turn it right-side-in again, and put the person's neck back. You can also get out of a deep pit by pushing the side so hard it flips the pit upside-down so you're at the top, not the bottom. |
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* [[Level Ate]] |
* [[Level Ate]] |
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* [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]]: In ''Queen Zixi of Ix'', Queen Zixi can only make herself look beautiful to others because of this trope. Her reflection shows her true age, which is considerable. |
* [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]]: In ''Queen Zixi of Ix'', Queen Zixi can only make herself look beautiful to others because of this trope. Her reflection shows her true age, which is considerable. |
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Latest revision as of 03:31, 5 December 2014
Lyman (long for "L.") Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: a work so popular that, in fact, he was chained to the series and wrote Oz book after Oz book while longing to write anything else. Which helps explain what a Continuity Snarl the Oz books are. Before being utterly trapped by Oz, he wrote a number of other works, such as The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
Works by L. Frank Baum with their own trope pages include:
- Land of Oz series, including
Other works by L. Frank Baum provide examples of:
- Cameo Prop: Baum died before MGM's version of The Wizard of Oz was filmed, but, in a remarkable coincidence, Frank Morgan as Professor Marvel wore a secondhand coat that turned out to have belonged to the author. (It's true; Snopes confirms it.)
- Cloudcuckooland: A lot of his fictional countries, but especially Mo in The Magical Monarch of Mo. For point of reference, this is a place where the treatment for sore throat is to remove a person's neck, turn it inside out, put it out to cure, turn it right-side-in again, and put the person's neck back. You can also get out of a deep pit by pushing the side so hard it flips the pit upside-down so you're at the top, not the bottom.
- Level Ate
- The Mirror Shows Your True Self: In Queen Zixi of Ix, Queen Zixi can only make herself look beautiful to others because of this trope. Her reflection shows her true age, which is considerable.
- Offered the Crown: In Queen Zixi of Ix, Bud is offered the crown after the king dies and the laws decree that the forty-seventh person to pass through Nole's eastern gate at sunrise is the new monarch.
- Public Domain Character: Santa Claus.
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Queen Zixi of Ix.
- Santa Claus: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a partial Trope Codifier for some of our modern Santa mythos.
- Vain Sorceress: Queen Zixi of Ix.
- Wacky Wayside Tribe: The Oz books in particular are loaded with them.