Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By L. Frank Baum

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
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L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and received enormous, immediate success. Baum went on to write seventeen additional novels in the Oz series. Today, he is considered the father of the American fairy tale. His stories inspired the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, one of the most widely viewed movies of all time. MinaLima is an award-winning graphic design studio founded by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, renowned for establishing the visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series. Specializing in graphic design and illustration, Miraphora and Eduardo have continued their involvement in the Harry Potter franchise through numerous design commissions, from creating all the graphic elements for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando Resort, to designing award-winning publications for the brand. Their best-selling books include Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, Harry Potter Film Wizardry, The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Archive of Magic: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts screenplays. MinaLima studio is renowned internationally for telling stories through design and has created its own MinaLima Classics series, reimagining a growing collection of much-loved tales including Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, and Pinocchio.

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The Complete Works of

L. FRANK BAUM

VOLUME 4 OF 76

Ozma of Oz

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 2

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‘Ozma of Oz’

L. Frank Baum: Parts Edition (in 76 parts)

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L. Frank Baum: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 4 of the Delphi Classics edition of L. Frank Baum in 76 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Ozma of Oz from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of L. Frank Baum, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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L. FRANK BAUM

IN 76 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Oz Works

1, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

2, The Marvelous Land of Oz

3, The Woggle-Bug Book

4, Ozma of Oz

5, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

6, The Road to Oz

7, The Emerald City of Oz

8, The Patchwork Girl of Oz

9, Little Wizard Stories of Oz

10, Tik-Tok of Oz

11, The Scarecrow of Oz

12, Rinkitink in Oz

13, The Lost Princess of Oz

14, The Tin Woodman of Oz

15, The Magic of Oz

16, Glinda of Oz

17, The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

Other Fantasy Works

18, The Magical Monarch of Mo

19, Dot and Tot of Merryland

20, American Fairy Tales

21, The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale

22, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

23, The Enchanted Island of Yew

24, Queen Zixi of Ix

25, John Dough and the Cherub

26, The Sea Fairies

27, Sky Island

Non-Fantasy Works Under Baum’s Name

28, The Daring Twins

29, Phoebe Daring

The Pseudonym Works – Fantasy

30, Twinkle and Chubbins

31, Policeman Bluejay

The Pseudonym Works – Non-Fantasy

32, Aunt Jane’s Nieces

33, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad

34, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville

35, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Work

36, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in Society

37, Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John

38, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on Vacation

39, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on the Ranch

40, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West

41, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross

42, The Flying Girl

43, The Flying Girl and Her Chum

44, Mary Louise

45, Mary Louise in the Country

46, Mary Louise Solves a Mystery

47, Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

48, Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier

49, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska

50, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama

51, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt

52, The Boy Fortune Hunters in China

53, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Yucatan

54, The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas

55, The Fate of a Crown

56, Daughters of Destiny

57, Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy

58, Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk

59, The Last Egyptian

Shorter Fiction

60, Our Landlady

61, Mother Goose in Prose

62, Animal Fairy Tales

63, Uncollected Short Stories

The Poetry Collections

64, By the Candelabra’s Glare

65, Father Goose: His Book

66, The Army Alphabet

67, The Navy Alphabet

68, Father Goose’s Year Book

The Poems

69, List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Plays

70, The Maid of Arran

71, The Wizard of Oz

72, The Maid of Athens

73, The King of Gee-Whiz

74, The Pipes O’ Pan

Baumiana

75, Baum Related Articles and Pieces

The Biography

76, In Other Lands Than Ours by Maud Gage-Baum

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Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz was Baum’s third OZ book, published in 1907 by Reilly & Britton and illustrated by John R. Neill.  Although most of the action takes place outside of Oz, it was with this book that Baum began to plan a series.  The novel begins as vacationing Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry board a steamship bound for Australia.  Dorothy falls overboard during a violent storm and, along with a yellow hen named Billina, drifts away in a large poultry crate.  They arrive on the shore of a strange land and discover that Billina is able to talk.  Lunch pails grow on trees and there are strange creatures known as Wheelers, with wheels instead of hands or feet.  As they travel through the land of Ev, they meet Tik-Tok, a mechanical man, and are captured by the head-changing Princess Langwidere.  Ozma of Oz comes to their rescue, along with old friends, the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion.  In order to rescue the royal family of Ev, Dorothy and her friends must travel to the land of the Nome King.  Readers also meet the Nome King, Roquat the Red, for the first time.  After more adventures, Ozma officially names Dorothy a Princess of Oz.

A first edition copy of Ozma of Oz

 CONTENTS

Author’s Note

1. The Girl in the Chicken Coop

2. The Yellow Hen

3. Letters in the Sand

4. Tiktok the Machine Man

5. Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail

6. The Heads of Langwidere

7. Ozma of Oz to the Rescue

8. The Hungry Tiger

9. The Royal Family of Ev

10. The Giant with the Hammer

11. The Nome King

12. The Eleven Guesses

13. The Nome King Laughs

14. Dorothy Tries to be Brave

15. Billina Frightens the Nome King

16. Purple, Green, and Gold

17. The Scarecrow Wins the Fight

18. The Fate of the Tin Woodman

19. The King of Ev

20. The Emerald City

21. Dorothy’s Magic Belt

An edition prior to 1935 featuring colour plates

A copy of the 1959 edition

OZMA OF OZ

A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of

Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin

Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and

the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good

People too Numerous to Mention

Faithfully Recorded Herein

by

L. Frank Baum

Author’s Note

My friends the children are responsible for this new Oz Book, as they were for the last one, which was called The Land of Oz. Their sweet little letters plead to know more about Dorothy; and they ask: What became of the Cowardly Lion? and What did Ozma do afterward? — meaning, of course, after she became the Ruler of Oz. And some of them suggest plots to me, saying: Please have Dorothy go to the Land of Oz again; or, Why don’t you make Ozma and Dorothy meet, and have a good time together? Indeed, could I do all that my little friends ask, I would be obliged to write dozens of books to satisfy their demands. And I wish I could, for I enjoy writing these stories just as much as the children say they enjoy reading them.

Well, here is more about Dorothy, and about our old friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and about the Cowardly Lion, and Ozma, and all the rest of them; and here, likewise, is a good deal about some new folks that are queer and unusual. One little friend, who read this story before it was printed, said to me: Billina is REAL OZZY, Mr. Baum, and so are Tiktok and the Hungry Tiger.

If this judgment is unbiased and correct, and the little folks find this new story real Ozzy, I shall be very glad indeed that I wrote it. But perhaps I shall get some more of those very welcome letters from my readers, telling me just how they like Ozma of Oz. I hope so, anyway.

L. FRANK BAUM.

MACATAWA, 1907.

1. The Girl in the Chicken Coop

The wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across its surface. Then the wind pushed the edges of the ripples until they became waves, and shoved the waves around until they became billows. The billows rolled dreadfully high: higher even than the tops of houses. Some of them, indeed, rolled as high as the tops of tall trees, and seemed like mountains; and the gulfs between the great billows were like deep valleys.

All this mad dashing and splashing of the waters of the big ocean, which the mischievous wind caused without any good reason whatever, resulted in a terrible storm, and a storm on the ocean is liable to cut many queer pranks and do a lot of damage.

At the time the wind began to blow, a ship was sailing far out upon the waters. When the waves began to tumble and toss and to grow bigger and bigger the ship rolled up and down, and tipped sidewise — first one way and then the other — and was jostled around so roughly that even the sailor-men had to hold fast to the ropes and railings to keep themselves from being swept away by the wind or pitched headlong into the sea.

And the clouds were so thick in the sky that the sunlight couldn’t get through them; so that the day grew dark as night, which added to the terrors of the storm.

The Captain of the ship was not afraid, because he had seen storms before, and had sailed his ship through them in safety; but he knew that his passengers would be in danger if they tried to stay on deck, so he put them all into the cabin and told them to stay there until after the storm was over, and to keep brave hearts and not be scared, and all would be well with them.

Now, among these passengers was a little Kansas girl named Dorothy Gale, who was going with her Uncle Henry to Australia, to visit some relatives they had never before seen. Uncle Henry, you must know, was not very well, because he had been working so hard on his Kansas farm that his health had given way and left him weak and nervous. So he left Aunt Em at home to watch after the hired men and to take care of the farm, while he traveled far away to Australia to visit his cousins and have a good rest.

Dorothy was eager to go with him on this journey, and Uncle Henry thought she would be good company and help cheer him up; so he decided to take her along. The little girl was quite an experienced traveller, for she had once been carried by a cyclone as far away from home as the marvelous Land of Oz, and she had met with a good many adventures in that strange country before she managed