THE MAGIC OF OZ

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L. FRANK BAUM

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The Magic of Oz
First published in 1919
ISBN 978-1-62011-980-8
Duke Classics
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Contents

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The Magic of Oz
To My Readers
1 - Mount Munch
2 - The Hawk
3 - Two Bad Ones
4 - Conspirators
5 - A Happy Corner of Oz
6 - Ozma's Birthday Presents
7 - The Forest of Gugu
8 - The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble
9 - The Isle of the Magic Flower
10 - Stuck Fast
11 - The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu
12 - Kiki Uses His Magic
13 - The Loss of the Black Bag
14 - The Wizard Learns the Magic Word
15 - The Lonesome Duck
16 - The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag
17 - A Remarkable Journey
18 - The Magic of the Wizard
19 - Dorothy and the Bumble Bees
20 - The Monkeys Have Trouble
21 - The College of Athletic Arts
22 - Ozma's Birthday Party
23 - The Fountain of Oblivion

The Magic of Oz

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A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy
and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the
Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill,
in their successful search for a Magical
and Beautiful Birthday Present for
Princess Ozma of Oz

by

L. Frank Baum

"Royal Historian of Oz"

To My Readers

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Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few years in our "great outside world," we may find incidents so marvelous and inspiring that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of The Land of Oz.

However, "The Magic of Oz" is really more strange and unusual than anything I have read or heard about on our side of The Great Sandy Desert which shuts us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past exciting years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of novelty.

A long and confining illness has prevented my answering all the good letters sent me—unless stamps were enclosed—but from now on I hope to be able to give prompt attention to each and every letter with which my readers favor me.

Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered and hoping the Oz Books will continue to give you pleasure as long as I am able to write them, I am

Yours affectionately,

L. FRANK BAUM,
"Royal Historian of Oz."
"OZCOT"
at HOLLYWOOD
in CALIFORNIA
1919

1 - Mount Munch

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