L. Frank Baum 2 hr 16 min read

The creator of Oz turns his hand to short fairy tales set in a recognizably American world of card parties and city streets.

L. Frank Baum's 1901 collection gathers a dozen inventive, sometimes wry tales, a box of robbers, a glass dog, the capture of Father Time, grounding fairy-tale magic in modern America. Playful, original, and characteristically Baum. Read it for the whimsical short fiction of the man who gave the country its own great fairyland.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 16 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).