He's also good at sprinkling into his dialogue some clever double entendre and light gibes, though his intended victims probably barely smarting from the ineffectual attacks.īaum knew his audience was young and female, and while his stories can be enjoyed by all, there is definitely a feminine leaning. It's Baum's inventive character creations that are the real draw. Seldom does the action near nail-biting excitement. The story drags occasionally and the plot is not masterly. As that ridiculously long subtitle suggests, Dorothy also reunites with her old pals from her previous adventures. She ends up in a fairyland, as per usual, and from there her journey takes her on an adventure, which does not quite live up to the epic nature of the well-known film, The Wizard of Oz, but is entertaining nonetheless.Īlong the way she meets many interesting and fun new characters like Tik-Tok the wind-up machine, a many-headed princess, the subterranean Nome King, and my favorite, Billina the smart and sassy talking chicken. This time around Dorothy is on a voyage to Australia to help soothe her Uncle Henry's rattled nerves (running a farm with hair-brain, heartless, cowardly help will do that to you!) when a storm washes her overboard. Frank Baum: Full-Time Author, Part-Time Prick You gotta think Baum was just fucking with his readers at this point.
Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. TikTok the Machine Man, General 1: Mark F.The original title for this was. Wheelers, Leader of the Wheelers, Big Red Colonel, Hungry Tiger, The Nome King: Christian Brock Smithīillina the Chicken, Sawhorse: Miriam Esther Goldman Kara Shallenberg, Miriam Esther Goldman, TriciaG, rymd80, & Mark F. Narrators: Paul Harvey, staticstasy, David Lawrence, Together the adventurers travel to the Nome King’s underground kingdom and have many exciting adventures before returning to Oz, and for Dorothy, eventual return to her family in the “civilized” world. Dorothy is also reunited with her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. There she meets Tiktok, a wind-up mechanical man a talking chicken, Billina and Ozma, the girl ruler of Oz who is leading a quest to rescue the royal family of Ev from their captivity by the Nome King. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy country that adjoins Oz, the land of Ev. Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Download cover art Download CD case insert Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading)
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