The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published in 1900 but has since been reprinted many times and has become a major classic. The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a storm. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-kwn stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. The first edition alone sold more than 35,000 copies.