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Written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. Baum did not offer any conclusive proof that he intended his novel to be a political allegory. In his…

An illustration from Coin's Financial School; the young Coin (center) invites the reader to choose prosperity with free silver, or ruin with the gold standard.