Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Ozma of Oz is the third novel in the Oz series, and was adapted into the film Return to Oz starring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its thirteen sequels have enchanted audiences since their publication in the early twentieth century. Will Billina have what it takes to save the day? But to win the royal family’s freedom Dorothy and her friends must play the trickster King’s games. After narrowly escaping the evil Princess Langwidere, Dorothy is reunited with familiar companions the Tin Woodsman, the Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion on a quest to rescue the royal family of Ev from the clutches of the tyrannical Nome King. The Nome King says he turned all the Royal Family into little ornaments in his palace, and proposes a wager with the visitors to see if they can identify them - or become ornaments themselves! Will he honor his promise? And how will our heroes beat his magic belt and huge armies? _Ozma_ also introduced the popular copper robot Tik-Tok, who will turn up in later Oz books.Ozma of Oz finds Dorothy and her new friend, the talking hen Billina, shipwrecked in the mysterious Land of Ev. But Ozma, Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman, The Cowardly Lion, and a small army arrive in Ev, free Dorothy, and decide to rescue the Royal Family of Ev from the Nome King - who lives in caverns under the mountains where the Nomes make gold, silver, and precious gems which they hide under the earth.

The king sold his wife and ten children into slavery with the Nome King, then drowned himself in sorrow currently, Ev is 'overseen' by Princess Langwidere, a niece who has 30 different heads that she trades off wearing. A beautiful edition with all 110 illustrations from the first edtion. They are in Ev, to the east of the great desert that surrounds Oz. Buy a cheap copy of Ozma of Oz book by L.

When the strange craft makes landfall, the hen inside can talk, so Dorothy knows she's in a magic land and names her companion Billina. She survives by climbing into a chicken coop that is also washed into the sea. In Baum's third Oz book (1907), Dorothy is traveling with her Uncle Henry by sea to visit relatives in Australia when she is swept overboard in a storm.

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