The Emerald City of Oz

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Harper Collins, Apr 23, 1993 - Juvenile Fiction - 304 pages

For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition.

Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy's friends discover the danger before it's too late?

All the enchantment of Oz is here for a whole new generation to discover in this deluxe new edition featuring ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill.

Afterword by Peter Glassman. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the original edition. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic
 

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE I HOW THE NOME KING BECAME ANGRY II
11
2How UNCLE HENRY GOT INTO TROUBLE
21
3How OZMA GRANTED DOROTHYS REQUEST
29
HOW 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
17HOW THEY CAME TO BUNBURY
180
18How OZMA LOOKED INTO THE MAGIC PICTURE
192
19HOW BUNNYBURY WELCOMED THE STRANGERS
196
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
237
24HOW THE TIN WOODMAN TOLD THE SAD NEWS
247

9HOW THE WOGGLEBUG TAUGHT ATHLETICS
87
IOHOW THE CUTTENCLIPS LIVED
100
How THE GENERAL MET THE FIRST AND FOREMOST
114
How THEY MATCHED THE FUDDLES
127
13HOW THE GENERAL TALKED TO THE KING
141
14HOW THE WIZARD PRACTICED SORCERY
147
15How DOROTHY HAPPENED TO GET LOST
158
16 How DOROTHY VISITED UTENSIA
169
25HOW THE SCARECROW DISPLAYED HIS WISDOM
255
26How OZMA REFUSED TO FIGHT FOR HER KINGDOM
263
27HOW THE FIERCE WARRIORS INVADED OZ
275
28HOW THEY DRANK AT THE FORBIDDEN FOUNTAIN
280
29HOW GLINDA WORKED A MAGIC SPELL
289
30HOW THE STORY OF OZ CAME TO AN END
295
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Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was born in Chittenango, New York. After trying many different professions, he turned to writing for children at the age of 40. The Wizard of Oz is the first and most popular of his fourteen Oz novels.

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