The Emerald City of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum

Reilly & Lee, 1910 - Juvenile Fiction - 295 pages

This new adventure into the fairylands of Oz is witness to the impending destruction of the Emerald City. The evil Nome King is determined to recover the Magic Belt from Ozma, and to aid in this terrible scheme he enlists a number of very powerful and frightening creatures. Their aim is to tunnel under the Deadly Desert and emerge in the unsuspecting Emerald City and lay waste to it and the Lands of Oz. Meanwhile, Dorothy and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em move to the Emerald City to live after life turns too hard in Kansas. They go on a grand tour of Oz, visiting many amusing and entertaining lands and their people. They arrive back at the Emerald City just in time for the final assault by the invading armies, and witness a surprise ending that can only happen in the Land of Oz.

Contents

• IOHOW THE CUTTENCLIPS LIVED IIHOW THE GENERAL MET THE FIRST AND FOREMOST 12HOW THEY MATCHED THE FUDDLES: 12
• 13HOW THE GENERAL TALKED TO THE KING: 13
• 14HOW THE WIZARD PRACTICED SORCERY: 14
• 15How DOROTHY HAPPENED TO GET LOST: 15
• How DOROTHY VISITED UTENSIA: 16
• 17HOW THEY CAME TO BUNBURY: 17
• 18How OZMA LOOKED INTO THE MAGIC PICTURE: 18
• 19HOW BUNNYBURY WELCOMED the StranGERS: 19
• 20How DOROTHY LUNCHED WITH A KING: 20
• 21HOW THE KING CHANGED HIS MIND: 21
• 22HOW THE WIZARD FOUND DOROTHY: 22
• 23HOW THEY ENCOUNTERED THE FLUTTERBUDGETS: 23
• 24 How THE TIN WOODMAN TOLD THE SAD NEWS: 24
• 25HOW THE SCARECROW DISPLAYED HIS WISDOM: 25
• 26How Ozma RefuseD TO FIGHT FOR HER KINGDOM: 26
• 27HOW THE FIERCE WARRIORS INVADED: 27
• 28How THEY DRANK AT THE FORBIDDEN FOUNTAIN: 28
• 29HOW GLINDA WORKED A MAGIC SPELL 30HOW THE STORY OF Oz Came to an: 29

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; Volume 6 of Del Rey Books; Oz Series; Volume 6 of Wonderful Oz books
• Author: Lyman Frank Baum
• Illustrated by: John Rea Neill
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Reilly & Lee, 1910
• Original from: University of California, Berkeley
• Digitized: Mar 15, 2023
• ISBN: 0758307845, 9780758307842
• Length: 295 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic