OZ, THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL 1 : THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ, THE WOGGLE-BUG BOOK, OZMA OF OZ - Softcover
Oz, the Complete Collection Vol 1 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, The Woggle-Bug Book, Ozma of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum's The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone.[nb 1] The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature. The Marvelous Land of Oz: is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Set shortly after the events in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and after Dorothy Gale's departure back to Kansas, the protagonist of the novel is an orphaned male youth called Tip. For as long as he can remember, Tip has been under the guardianship of a cruel Wicked Witch named Mombi (who is the main antagonist) and lives in the northern quadrant called Gillikin Country in the Land of Oz. Mombi has always been extremely mean and abusive to Tip, calling him names and making him cook and clean for her. As Mombi is returning home one day, Tip plans to get revenge and frighten her with a scarecrow he has made. The Woggle-Bug Book features the broad ethnic humor that was accepted and popular in its era, and which Baum employed in various works. Falls in love with a gaudy "Wagnerian plaid" dress that he sees on a mannequin in a department store window. Being a woggle bug, he has trouble differentiating between the dress and its wearers, wax or human. The dress is on sale for $7.93 ("GREATLY REDUCED" reads the tag). The Bug works for two days as a ditchdigger (he earns double pay since he digs with four hands) for money to buy the dress. Ozma of Oz It has been five years since The Wonderful Wizard of Oz took place. And Uncle Henry has been ordered by his doctor to take a vacation from the stress and labor of having to replace the Kansas farmhouse due to the first one being swept away in a cyclone. He is accompanied by his adolescent niece, Dorothy Gale (this is the first of the Oz books in which the reader learns her last name), while aboard a small steamship headed to Australia while Aunt Em and Dorothy's pet dog Toto, stay behind to look after the newly built farmhouse. While traveling on the sea, a terrible storm suddenly hits, bringing rain and lightning, tossing the little ship violently over the waves. Henry and Dorothy are separated when she is accidentally thrown overboard and cast away into the water along with Billina, a yellow hen that was also on board. The two take refuge in a wooden chicken-coop floating nearby.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1523313498
- ISBN 13 9781523313495
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages198
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