The illusion created was that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma related their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of wireless telegraph. Even while he was alive, Baum was styled as "the Royal Historian of Oz" to emphasize the concept that Oz is an actual place. Frank Baum went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz. As in Ozma of Oz before it, and in some of the books after, Oz is not the land where the adventures take place, but the land the characters are seeking as a refuge from adventure. Very little of the story -six of the twenty chapters-actually takes place in Oz. Dorothy and others are swallowed up by cracks in the earth, and fall into an underground cavern, where begin their adventures. Written shortly after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and around the time Baum moved to California, the book starts with an earthquake in California. He was not entirely pleased with this, as the introduction to Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz opens with the protest that he knows many tales of many lands, and hoped that children would permit him to tell them those tales. It was published on Jand reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.īaum, having resigned himself to writing a series of Oz books, set up elements of this book in the prior Ozma of Oz. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L.
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