Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Lyman Frank Baum

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
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Lyman Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango in the state of New York. Educated mostly at home due to ill health, he was encouraged by his wealthy father to pursue his early interests in journalism and playwriting. He started his first magazine aged fifteen, had his own theatre at twenty-four and worked for many newspapers and periodicals before turning to children's fiction with stories he had made up for his own four sons. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was his third bestselling book in as many years, and launched the series of Oz titles. Baum had moved with his family to Hollywood following the huge success of the books and stage adaptations. His own Oz Film Manufacturing Company failed to capitalize on the stories, and the hugely popular movie The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, was not made until twenty years after Baum's death in 1939.

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The Complete Works of

L. FRANK BAUM

VOLUME 5 OF 76

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 2

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‘Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz’

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

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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L. Frank Baum: Parts Edition

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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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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Published by Reilly & Britton in 1908 and illustrated by John R. Neill, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz was Baum’s fourth Oz book and one of his most exciting.  In the narrative, Dorothy Gale is on her way to see Uncle Henry in California at Hugson’s Ranch.  She joins her cousin Zeb for a ride in a buggy drawn by a horse named Jim.  An earthquake opens a crevice which they fall through, ending up in the land of the Mangaboos, strange vegetable people who blame Dorothy and Zeb for damaging their glass dwellings.  Jim and Dorothy’s cat, Eureka, are able to talk and so Dorothy knows that once again she is in a fairyland.  While there, a balloon falls from the sky, and Dorothy meets her old friend the humbug Wizard of Oz.  Escaping the Mangaboos, the companions travel through the beautiful Valley of Voe, which features invisible people and marauding bears, meet the Braided Man in Pyramid Mountain, and fight the hideous, winged, wooden Gargoyles.  After a few further adventures, Dorothy uses the magic belt she’d captured from the Nome King, and they arrive at the Emerald City, where, among other happenings, Jim the cab-horse races the Sawhorse and Eureka the cat undergoes a trial for apparently eating one of the Wizard’s nine tiny piglets.

A first edition copy of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1.

CHAPTER 2.

CHAPTER 3.

CHAPTER 4.

CHAPTER 5.

CHAPTER 6.

CHAPTER 7.

CHAPTER 8.

CHAPTER 9.

CHAPTER 10.

CHAPTER 11.

CHAPTER 12.

CHAPTER 13.

CHAPTER 14.

CHAPTER 15.

CHAPTER 16.

CHAPTER 17.

CHAPTER 18.

CHAPTER 19.

CHAPTER 20.

A copy of the 1947 edition

DEDICATED TO HARRIET A. B. NEAL.

To My Readers

It’s no use; no use at all. The children won’t let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell them, some time or another; but just now my loving tyrants won’t allow me. They cry: Oz — Oz! more about Oz, Mr. Baum! and what can I do but obey their commands?

This is Our Book — mine and the children’s. For they have flooded me with thousands of suggestions in regard to it, and I have honestly tried to adopt as many of these suggestions as could be fitted into one story.

After the wonderful success of Ozma of Oz it is evident that Dorothy has become a firm fixture in these Oz stories. The little ones all love Dorothy, and as one of my small friends aptly states: It isn’t a real Oz story without her. So here she is again, as sweet and gentle and innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange adventure.

There were many requests from my little correspondents for more about the Wizard. It seems the jolly old fellow made hosts of friends in the first Oz book, in spite of the fact that he frankly acknowledged himself a humbug. The children had heard how he mounted into the sky in a balloon and they were all waiting for him to come down again. So what could I do but tell what happened to the Wizard afterward? You will find him in these pages, just the same humbug Wizard as before.

There was one thing the children demanded which I found it impossible to do in this present book: they bade me introduce Toto, Dorothy’s little black dog, who has many friends among my readers. But you will see, when you begin to read the story, that Toto was in Kansas while Dorothy was in California, and so she had to start on her adventure without him. In this book Dorothy had to take her kitten with her instead of her dog; but in the next Oz book, if I am permitted to write one, I intend to tell a good deal about Toto’s further history.

Princess Ozma, whom I love as much as my readers do, is again introduced in this story, and so are several of our old friends of Oz. You will also become acquainted with Jim the Cab-Horse, the Nine Tiny Piglets, and Eureka, the Kitten. I am sorry the kitten was not as well behaved as she ought to have been; but perhaps she wasn’t brought up properly. Dorothy found her, you see, and who her parents were nobody knows.

I believe, my dears, that I am the proudest story-teller that ever lived. Many a time tears of pride and joy have stood in my eyes while I read the tender, loving, appealing letters that come to me in almost every mail from my little readers. To have pleased you, to have interested you, to have won your friendship, and perhaps your love, through my stories, is to my mind as great an achievement as to become President of the United States. Indeed, I would much rather be your story-teller, under these conditions, than to be the President. So you have helped me to fulfill my life’s ambition, and I am more grateful to you, my dears, than I can express in words.

I try to answer every letter of my young correspondents; yet sometimes there are so many letters that a little time must pass before you get your answer. But be patient, friends, for the answer will surely come, and by writing to me you more than repay me for the pleasant task of preparing these books. Besides, I am proud to acknowledge that the books are partly yours, for your suggestions often guide me in telling the stories, and I am sure they would not be half so good without your clever and thoughtful assistance.

L. FRANK BAUM

Coronado, 1908.

CHAPTER 1.

THE EARTHQUAKE

THE train from ‘Frisco was very late. It should have arrived at Hugson’s siding at midnight, but it was already five o’clock and the gray dawn was breaking in the east when the little train slowly rumbled up to the open shed that served for the station-house. As it came to a stop the conductor called out in a loud voice:

Hugson’s Siding!

At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm. The conductor helped her off the car and then the engineer started his train again, so that it puffed and groaned and moved slowly away up the track. The reason he was so late was because all through the night there were times when the solid earth shook and trembled under him, and the engineer was afraid that at any moment the rails might spread apart and an accident happen to his passengers. So he moved the cars slowly and with caution.

The little girl stood still to watch until the train had disappeared around a curve; then she turned to see where she was.

The shed at Hugson’s Siding was bare save for an old wooden bench, and did not look very inviting. As she peered through the soft gray light not a house of any sort was visible near the station, nor was any person in sight; but after a while the child discovered a horse and buggy standing near a group of trees a short distance away. She walked toward it and found the horse tied to a tree and standing motionless, with its head hanging down almost to the ground. It was a big horse, tall and bony, with long legs and large knees and feet. She could count his ribs easily where they showed through the skin of his body, and his head was long and seemed altogether too big for him, as if it did not fit. His tail was short and scraggly, and his harness had been broken in