The Land of Oz - The Marvelous Adventure of Princess Ozma with Original Illustrations by John R. Neill

<p><strong><em>The Land of Oz</em> continues L. Frank Baum's chronicle of the marvellous kingdom introduced in <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>.</strong> In Dorothy's absence the timid but good-hearted Scarecrow governs the Emerald City assisted by the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. Meanwhile far from the capital a young boy named Tip flees an ill-tempered guardian and begins a wandering journey that will quietly reshape the destiny of Oz itself.</p><p>Baum enlarges the imaginative geography of his creation with new figures who have since become central to the Oz tradition including Jack Pumpkinhead the Sawhorse and the formidable General Jinjur. Beneath its playful invention lies a work attentive to questions of authority identity transformation and belonging. The novel's narrative at once episodic and carefully structured reflects Baum's gift for combining gentle satire with fairy-tale logic and comic invention.</p><p>As the second book in the Oz series <em>The Land of Oz</em> establishes the continuity and depth of Baum's imagined world laying foundations that would sustain one of the most enduring mythologies in American children's literature. Presented here in a faithful edition of the original text this volume invites modern readers to return to a foundational work of early twentieth-century fantasy.</p>