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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 325 - The Hero’s Journey

During the Christmas holidays, you may remember that I went over the the complete The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, written in 1900.  And by the way, when I finished writing the transcript for this episode, I realized that, while it was meant as a temporary transition from Poe’s works to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, examining the similarities, and especially the differences between the literary works serves as a way to better understand Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, as well as L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.  Often we tend to try and learn more about the essence of a literary work by comparing it to a similar work - but I believe that you can learn a great deal about a literary work by comparing it to a work that is vastly different - and you can’t get much different than The Wizard of Oz and a story by Poe.

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