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    The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    L. Frank Baum

    Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango in the state of New York. Educated mostly at home due to ill health, he was encouraged by his wealthy father to pursue his early interests in journalism and playwriting. He started his first magazine aged fifteen, had his own theatre at twenty-four and worked for many newspapers and periodicals before turning to children's fiction with stories he had made up for his own four sons. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was his third bestselling book in as many years, and launched the series of Oz titles. Baum had moved with his family to Hollywood following the huge success of the books and stage adaptations. His own Oz Film Manufacturing Company failed to capitalize on the stories, and the hugely popular movie The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, was not made until twenty years after Baum's death in 1939.

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      The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - L. Frank Baum

      The Complete Works of

      L. FRANK BAUM

      VOLUME 15 OF 76

      The Magic of Oz

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 2

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Magic of Oz’

      L. Frank Baum: Parts Edition (in 76 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 119 1

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      L. Frank Baum: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 15 of the Delphi Classics edition of L. Frank Baum in 76 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Magic of Oz from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of L. Frank Baum, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of L. Frank Baum or the Complete Works of L. Frank Baum in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      L. FRANK BAUM

      IN 76 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Oz Works

      1, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

      2, The Marvelous Land of Oz

      3, The Woggle-Bug Book

      4, Ozma of Oz

      5, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

      6, The Road to Oz

      7, The Emerald City of Oz

      8, The Patchwork Girl of Oz

      9, Little Wizard Stories of Oz

      10, Tik-Tok of Oz

      11, The Scarecrow of Oz

      12, Rinkitink in Oz

      13, The Lost Princess of Oz

      14, The Tin Woodman of Oz

      15, The Magic of Oz

      16, Glinda of Oz

      17, The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

      Other Fantasy Works

      18, The Magical Monarch of Mo

      19, Dot and Tot of Merryland

      20, American Fairy Tales

      21, The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale

      22, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

      23, The Enchanted Island of Yew

      24, Queen Zixi of Ix

      25, John Dough and the Cherub

      26, The Sea Fairies

      27, Sky Island

      Non-Fantasy Works Under Baum’s Name

      28, The Daring Twins

      29, Phoebe Daring

      The Pseudonym Works – Fantasy

      30, Twinkle and Chubbins

      31, Policeman Bluejay

      The Pseudonym Works – Non-Fantasy

      32, Aunt Jane’s Nieces

      33, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad

      34, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville

      35, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Work

      36, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in Society

      37, Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John

      38, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on Vacation

      39, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on the Ranch

      40, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West

      41, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross

      42, The Flying Girl

      43, The Flying Girl and Her Chum

      44, Mary Louise

      45, Mary Louise in the Country

      46, Mary Louise Solves a Mystery

      47, Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

      48, Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier

      49, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska

      50, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama

      51, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt

      52, The Boy Fortune Hunters in China

      53, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Yucatan

      54, The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas

      55, The Fate of a Crown

      56, Daughters of Destiny

      57, Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy

      58, Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk

      59, The Last Egyptian

      Shorter Fiction

      60, Our Landlady

      61, Mother Goose in Prose

      62, Animal Fairy Tales

      63, Uncollected Short Stories

      The Poetry Collections

      64, By the Candelabra’s Glare

      65, Father Goose: His Book

      66, The Army Alphabet

      67, The Navy Alphabet

      68, Father Goose’s Year Book

      The Poems

      69, List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

      The Plays

      70, The Maid of Arran

      71, The Wizard of Oz

      72, The Maid of Athens

      73, The King of Gee-Whiz

      74, The Pipes O’ Pan

      Baumiana

      75, Baum Related Articles and Pieces

      The Biography

      76, In Other Lands Than Ours by Maud Gage-Baum

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      The Magic of Oz

      The Magic of Oz was Baum’s thirteenth Oz book, published in 1919 by Reilly & Lee, illustrated by John R. Neill.  The novel appeared one month after Baum’s death.  Ruggedo, the former Nome King, along with a Munchkin boy, Kiki Aru, plan to invade and conquer Oz.  The adventurous Kiki learns and uses forbidden magic, later harnessed by Ruggedo.  Together they recruit an army of wild animals from the Forest of Gugu within Oz.  The tale includes a variety of intriguing transformations, most memorable the Li-Mon-Eags, a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a monkey, and the wings of eagles.  The Magic of Oz also delights with many familiar and beloved characters featured in other Oz books.

      First edition copy of The Magic of Oz

      CONTENTS

      1. Mount Munch

      2. The Hawk

      3. Two Bad Ones

      4. Conspirators

      5. A Happy Corner of Oz

      6. Ozma’s Birthday Presents

      7. The Forest of Gugu

      8. The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble

      9. The Isle of the Magic Flower

      10. Stuck Fast

      11. The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu

      12. Kiki Uses His Magic

      13. The Loss of the Black Bag

      14. The Wizard Learns the Magic Word

      15. The Lonesome Duck

      16. The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag

      17. A Remarkable Journey

      18. The Magic of the Wizard

      19. Dorothy and the Bumble Bees

      20. The Monkeys Have Trouble

      21. The College of Athletic Arts

      22. Ozma’s Birthday Party

      23. The Fountain of Oblivion

      A  Parker Brothers Oz game from 1921

      The board from the Parker Brothers Oz game, 1921

      To My Readers

      Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few years in our great outside world, we may find incidents so marvelous and inspiring that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of The Land of Oz.

      However, The Magic of Oz is really more strange and unusual than anything I have read or heard about on our side of The Great Sandy Desert which shuts us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past exciting years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of novelty.

      A long and confining illness has prevented my answering all the good letters sent me — unless stamps were enclosed — but from now on I hope to be able to give prompt attention to each and every letter with which my readers favor me.

      Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered and hoping the Oz Books will continue to give you pleasure as long as I am able to write them, I am

      Yours affectionately,

      L. FRANK BAUM,

      Royal Historian of Oz.

      OZCOT

      at HOLLYWOOD

      in CALIFORNIA

      1919

      1. Mount Munch

      On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big, tall hill called Mount Munch. One one side, the bottom of this hill just touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins.

      The Munchkin folks, however, merely stand off and look at Mount Munch and know very little about it; for, about a third of the way up, its sides become too steep to climb, and if any people live upon the top of that great towering peak that seems to reach nearly to the skies, the Munchkins are not aware of the fact.

      But people DO live there, just the same. The top of Mount Munch is shaped like a saucer, broad and deep, and in the saucer are fields where grains and vegetables grow, and flocks are fed, and brooks flow and trees bear all sorts of things. There are houses scattered here and there, each having its family of Hyups, as the people call themselves. The Hyups seldom go down the mountain, for the same reason that the Munchkins never climb up: the sides are too steep.

      In one of the houses lived a wise old Hyup named Bini Aru, who used to be a clever Sorcerer. But Ozma of Oz, who rules everyone in the Land of Oz, had made a decree that no one should practice magic in her dominions except Glinda the Good and the Wizard of Oz, and when Glinda sent this royal command to the Hyups by means of a strong-winged Eagle, old Bini Aru at once stopped performing magical arts. He destroyed many of his magic powders and tools of magic, and afterward honestly obeyed the law. He had never seen Ozma, but he knew she was his Ruler and must be obeyed.

      There was only one thing that grieved him. He had discovered a new and secret method of transformations that was unknown to any other Sorcerer. Glinda the Good did not know it, nor did the little Wizard of Oz, nor Dr. Pipt nor old Mombi, nor anyone else who dealt in magic arts. It was Bini Aru’s own secret. By its means, it was the simplest thing in the world to transform anyone into beast, bird or fish, or anything else, and back again, once you know how to pronounce the mystical word: Pyrzqxgl.

      Bini Aru had used this secret many times, but not to cause evil or suffering to others. When he had wandered far from home and was hungry, he would say: I want to become a cow — Pyrzqxgl! In an instant he would be a cow, and then he would eat grass and satisfy his hunger. All beasts and birds can talk in the Land of Oz, so when the cow was no longer hungry, it would say: I want to be Bini Aru again: Pyrzqxgl! and the magic word, properly pronounced, would instantly restore him to his proper form.

      Now, of course, I would not dare to write down this magic word so plainly if I thought my readers would pronounce it properly and so be able to transform themselves and others, but it is a fact that no one in all the world except Bini Aru, had ever (up to the time this story begins) been able to pronounce Pyrzqxgl! the right way, so I think it is safe to give it to you. It might be well, however, in reading this story aloud, to be careful not to pronounce Pyrzqxgl the proper way, and thus avoid all danger of the secret being able to work mischief.

      Bini Aru, having discovered

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