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      THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ

      By

      L. FRANK BAUM

      Illustrated by John R. Neil

      This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2018

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       About L. Frank Baum:

      Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote a total of 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, more than 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and the nascent medium of film; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book would become a landmark of twentieth-century cinema. His works anticipated many technological advances that would become commonplace a century later: television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), and cultural trends such as women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), police corruption and false evidence (Phoebe Daring), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

      Source: Wikipedia

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

       Tip Manufactures a Pumpkinhead

       The Marvelous Powder of Life

       The Flight of the Fugitives

       Tip Makes an Experiment in Magic

       The Awakening of the Saw-horse

       Jack Pumpkinhead's Ride to the Emerald City

       His Majesty the Scarecrow

       Gen. Jinjur's Army of Revolt

       The Scarecrow Plans an escape

       The Journey to the Tin Woodman

       A Nickel-Plated Emperor

       Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, T. E.

       A Highly Magnified History

       Old Mombi indulges in Witchcraft

       The Prisoners of the Queen

       The Scarecrow Takes Time to Think

       The Astonishing Flight of the Gump

       In the Jackdaw's Nest

       Dr. Nikidik's Famous Wishing Pills

       The Scarecrow Appeals to Glinda the Good

       The Tin-Woodman Plucks a Rose

       The Transformation of Old Mombi

       Princess Ozma of Oz

       The Riches of Content

      Author's Note

      After the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and asking me to "write something more" about the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they were, in the light of pretty compliments; but the letters continued to come during succeeding months, and even years.

      Finally I promised one little girl, who made a long journey to see me and prefer her request,—and she is a "Dorothy," by the way—that when a thousand little girls had written me a thousand little letters asking for the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman I would write the book, either little Dorothy was a fairy in disguise, and waved her magic wand, or the success of the stage production of "The Wizard of Oz" made new friends for the story, for the thousand letters reached their destination long since—and many more followed them.

      And now, although pleading guilty to long delay, I have kept my promise in this book.

      L. FRANK BAUM.

      Chicago, June, 1904

      To those excellent good fellows and comedians

       David C. Montgomery and Frank A. Stone

       whose clever personations of the

       Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow

       have delighted thousands of children

       throughout the land,

       this book is gratefully dedicated by

       THE AUTHOR

      In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.

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