Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
core novel 1908 Oz
Record
| First published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.72 (15,730 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780688098261 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, an earthquake strikes California while Dorothy and her cousin Zeb are out driving, plunging them, along with a horse and Dorothy's cat Eureka, into a deep underground cavern far below the earth's surface. There they unexpectedly reunite with the long-lost Wizard, who left Oz by balloon at the end of Dorothy's first adventure and has been drifting through underground realms ever since. Together the group must navigate a series of fantastical and often dangerous subterranean lands, each with its own strange inhabitants and perils, working their way toward a path that might lead them back up to the surface and, eventually, to the safety of Oz itself.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 4 of 14 in the series' recorded order
- Author: L. Frank Baum
Notes
- From the series record (The Oz Books): L. Frank Baum's own 14 Oz novels, one continuous author-written saga (1900-1920, the last published posthumously a year after his 1919 death). Registered per the credited-authorship-as-bright-line precedent: Core Canon = Baum's own 14 novels only. Ruth Plumly Thompson (and, later, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, and others) continued the series with an officially licensed further ~26 'Famous Forty' Oz books after Baum's death -- explicitly out of scope (a sprawling multi-author catalogue to register in a later pass rather than all at once); logged as a future candidate for a later pass. No formal literary award existed for children's fantasy in this era; this project's genre-historical-significance precedent (King of Elfland's Daughter, The Worm Ouroboros, Lud-in-the-Mist) applies -- Oz is a foundational work of American fantasy, adapted into the 1902 Broadway musical and the 1939 MGM film.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Oz Books: position 4 of 14: previous Ozma of Oz (1907) · next The Road to Oz (1909)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_and_the_Wizard_in_Oz
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