The Marvelous Land of Oz
core novel 1904 Oz
Record
| First published | 1904 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.79 (26,826 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781782260622 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
In The Marvelous Land of Oz, an orphan boy named Tip flees the household of Mombi, the cruel old witch who raised him, taking with him Jack Pumpkinhead, a wooden creature he has secretly brought to life using one of Mombi's own magical powders. On the road, Tip and his makeshift companion encounter a rebel army of girls marching on the Emerald City under the leadership of General Jinjur, intent on overthrowing the current government. Tip falls in with the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, old friends from Dorothy's earlier adventure, as the three work together to respond to the uprising and restore stable rule to Oz, navigating a land whose politics prove nearly as strange as its magic.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 2 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 2 of 14: previous The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) · next Ozma of Oz (1907)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelous_Land_of_Oz
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