The Emerald City of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum

Reilly & Britton Company, publishers, 1910 - Juvenile Fiction - 295 pages

Dorothy's aunt and uncle get acquainted with Oz after they lose their farm and Ozma invites them to live with her.

Contents

• IHOW THE NOME KING BECAME ANGRY: 11
• 2HOW UNCLE HENRY GOT INTO TROUBLE: 21
• 3HOW OZMA Granted DOROTHYS REQUEST: 29
• 4HOW THE NOME KING PLANNED REVENGE: 39
• 5HOW DOROTHY BECAME A PRINCESS: 48
• 6How GUPH VISITED THE WHIMSIES: 59
• 7HOW AUNT EM CONQUERED THE LION: 66
• 8HOW THE Grand GalLIPOOT JOINED THE NOMES: 78
• 9HOW THE WOGGLEBUG TAUGHT ATHLETICS: 87
• 11HOW the GeneRAL MET THE FIRST AND FOREMOST: 114
• 12HOW THEY MATCHED THE FUDDLES: 127
• 13HOW THE GENERAL TALKED TO THE KING: 141
• 14HOW THE WIZARD PRACTICED SORCERY: 147
• 17HOW THEY CAME TO Bunbury: 180
• 18How Ozma LOOKED INTO THE MAGIC PICTURE: 192
• 20How DOROTHY LUNCHED WITH A KING: 205
• 21HOW THE KING CHANGED HIS MIND: 216
• 22HOW THE WIZARD FOUND DOROTHY: 226
• 23HOW THEY ENCOUNTERED THE FLUTTERBUDGETS: 247
• 25HOW THE SCARECROW DISPLAYED HIS WISDOM: 255
• 26How OZMA REFUSED TO FIGHT FOR HER KINGDOM: 263
• 27HOW THE FIERCE WARRIORS INVADED: 275
• 29How GLINDA WORKED A MAGIC SPELL: 289
• 30HOW THE STORY OF OZ CAME TO AN END: 295

About the author

Best known as the author of the Wizard of Oz series, Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, in New York. When Baum was a young man, his father, who had made a fortune in oil, gave him several theaters in New York and Pennsylvania to manage. Eventually, Baum had his first taste of success as a writer when he staged The Maid of Arran, a melodrama he had written and scored. Married in 1882 to Maud Gage, whose mother was an influential suffragette, the two had four sons. Baum often entertained his children with nursery rhymes and in 1897 published a compilation titled Mother Goose in Prose, which was illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. The project was followed by three other picture books of rhymes, illustrated by William Wallace Denslow. The success of the nursery rhymes persuaded Baum to craft a novel out of one of the stories, which he titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Some critics have suggested that Baum modeled the character of the Wizard on himself. Other books for children followed the original Oz book, and Baum continued to produce the popular Oz books until his death in 1919. The series was so popular that after Baum's death and by special arrangement, Oz books continued to be written for the series by other authors. Glinda of Oz, the last Oz book that Baum wrote, was published in 1920.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Emerald City of Oz; Oz Series
• Author: Lyman Frank Baum
• Illustrated by: John Rea Neill
• Contributor: Reilly & Britton Co
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Reilly & Britton Company, publishers, 1910
• Original from: University of California, Berkeley
• Digitized: Mar 15, 2023
• ISBN: 0758307918, 9780758307910
• Length: 295 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy / General