The Emerald City of Oz
core novel 1910 Oz
Record
| First published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.85 (12,211 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781782263104 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
In The Emerald City of Oz, Dorothy brings her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to live permanently in the Land of Oz after their Kansas farm falls into foreclosure and they have nowhere else to turn. As Dorothy settles her relatives into their new home and shows them the wonders of Oz, the underground Nome King, still resentful over his stolen magic belt from an earlier adventure, secretly begins tunneling beneath the Deadly Desert that has always protected Oz from outside invasion. While Dorothy and her aunt and uncle explore the country, the Nome King's slow, patient scheme advances largely unnoticed, building toward a confrontation that threatens the safety of the entire kingdom.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 6 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 6 of 14: previous The Road to Oz (1909) · next The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emerald_City_of_Oz
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