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The Magic of Oz

L. Frank Baum

A Munchkin boy named Kiki Aru discovers a transformation spell and joins forces with the exiled Nome King Ruggedo to conquer Oz.

"The Magic of Oz" by L. Frank Baum is a fantasy novel. A Munchkin boy named Kiki Aru discovers a transformation spell and joins forces with the exiled Nome King Ruggedo to conquer Oz.

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On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big, tall hill called Mount Munch. On one side, the bottom of this hill just touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins.

The Munchkin folks, however, merely stand off and look at Mount Munch and know very little about it; for, about a third of the way up, its sides become too steep to climb, and if any people live upon the top of that great towering peak that seems to reach nearly to the skies, the Munchkins are not aware of the fact.

But people do live there, just the same. The top of Mount Munch is shaped like a saucer, broad and deep, and in the saucer are fields where grains and vegetables grow, and flocks are fed, and brooks flow and trees bear all sorts of things. There are houses scattered here and there, each having its family of Hyups, as the people call themselves. The Hyups seldom go down the mountain, for the same reason that the Munchkins never climb up: the sides are too steep.

Contents

  1. 01Mount Munch
  2. 02The Hawk
  3. 03Two Bad Ones
  4. 04Conspirators
  5. 05A Happy Corner of Oz
  6. 06Ozma’s Birthday Presents
  7. 07The Forest of Gugu
  8. 08The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble
  9. 09The Isle of the Magic Flower
  10. 10Stuck Fast
  11. 11The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu
  12. 12Kiki Uses His Magic
  13. 13The Loss of the Black Bag
  14. 14The Wizard Learns the Magic Word
  15. 15The Lonesome Duck
  16. 16The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag
  17. 17A Remarkable Journey
  18. 18The Magic of the Wizard
  19. 19Dorothy and the Bumble Bees
  20. 20The Monkeys Have Trouble
  21. 21The College of Athletic Arts
  22. 22Ozma’s Birthday Party
  23. 23The Fountain of Oblivion
  24. 24The Oz Books by L. Frank Baum “Royal Historian of Oz”
  25. 25The Wizard of Oz [Originally published as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]
  26. 26The Land of Oz [Originally published as The Marvelous Land of Oz]
  27. 27Ozma of Oz
  28. 28Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
  29. 29The Road to Oz
  30. 30The Emerald City of Oz
  31. 31The Patchwork Girl of Oz
  32. 32Tik-Tok of Oz
  33. 33The Scarecrow of Oz
  34. 34Rinkitink in Oz
  35. 35The Lost Princess of Oz
  36. 36The Tin Woodman of Oz
  37. 37The Magic of Oz
  38. 38Glinda of Oz
  39. 39Transcriber’s Notes

About this edition

Author
L. Frank Baum
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
253 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers