Yellow brick road

The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in "The Marvelous Land of Oz" and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz". The 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" based on the novel gave it the name by which it is better known as the yellow-brick road. In both novel and movie, it is the path which Dorothy is instructed to follow from Munchkin Country to the Emerald City in order to seek the aid of the Wizard of Oz.

In the second book, "The Marvelous Land of Oz", Tip and Jack Pumpkinhead likewise follow a yellow-brick road to reach the Emerald City.L. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, "The Annotated Wizard of Oz", p 107, ISBN 0-517-500868 ]

In the book "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" it is revealed that there are two yellow brick roads from Munchkin Country to the Emerald City: according to the Shaggy Man, Dorothy Gale took the harder one in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".

In the 1939 film, a red brick road is seen to originate at the same point as the yellow brick road in the center of Munchkinland, heading off in a different direction. Also, at the cornfield where Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, there is an intersection of yellow brick roads. Dorothy and Scarecrow decide which of the three branches to take, and eventually find themselves at the Emerald City.

In the 1985 semi-sequel "Return to Oz", Dorothy finds the yellow brick road in ruins at the hands of the evil Gnome King.

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*Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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Further reading

* Dighe, Ranjit S. ed. "The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory" (2002)
* Hearn, Michael Patrick (ed). (2000, 1973) "The Annotated Wizard of Oz". W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-04992-2
* Ritter, Gretchen. "Silver slippers and a golden c

* Rockoff, Hugh. "The 'Wizard of Oz' as a Monetary Allegory," "Journal of Political Economy" 98 (1990): 739-60 online at JSTOR