Once there was a hardworking girl with a wicked stepmother and a heart of gold. She got a makeover from a fairy godmother, ...

Every generation has an Oz story, but one retelling best captures what makes L. Frank Baum’s world sing.

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This universalism of fairy tales was also used by other Polish Nobel Prize winners and leading writers, even at a time when realism dominated popular literature.