Made famous by Victor Fleming's film adaptation of the most famous fantasy film of all time, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was Baum's third book, and it was an immediate success. It was just one of many he was planning, but reader pressure was so strong that he ended up writing fourteen novels about this fantastical world. Award-winning author Olimpia Zagnoli deploys a captivating imagery, in which the powerful geometric patterns and the chromatic interplay of emerald green and gold give this edition an unparalleled character.