The Lost Princess of Oz
core novel 1917 Oz
Record
| First published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.90 (7,121 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781782261032 |
| Internal chronology | 11 |
Synopsis
In The Lost Princess of Oz, Princess Ozma vanishes without a trace from her chambers in the Emerald City, and with her go several of Oz's most powerful magical artifacts, leaving the kingdom suddenly without its ruler and without many of the tools that have long kept it safe. Alarmed by the disappearance, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their companions organize search parties to comb Oz's uncharted regions for any sign of the missing princess and the stolen magic, uncertain whether they are dealing with an accident, an abduction, or something else entirely. As the search spreads across unfamiliar territory, the searchers must piece together clues while confronting whatever force was capable of removing Ozma so completely.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 11 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 11 of 14: previous Rinkitink in Oz (1916) · next The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Princess_of_Oz
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