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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

L. Frank Baum
Chapters (23)
  1. Title Page
  2. epubBooks Information
  3. To My Readers
  4. CHAPTER 1.
  5. CHAPTER 2.
  6. CHAPTER 3.
  7. CHAPTER 4.
  8. CHAPTER 5.
  9. CHAPTER 6.
  10. CHAPTER 7.
  11. CHAPTER 8.
  12. CHAPTER 9.
  13. CHAPTER 10.
  14. CHAPTER 11.
  15. CHAPTER 12.
  16. CHAPTER 13.
  17. Chapter 14.
  18. CHAPTER 15.
  19. CHAPTER 16.
  20. CHAPTER 17.
  21. CHAPTER 18.
  22. CHAPTER 19.
  23. CHAPTER 20.

Title Page

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

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L. Frank Baum

Illustrated by John R. Neill

New York

Books Of Wonder William Morrow & Co., Inc.

Published in 1908

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To My Readers

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.