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Emerald City of Oz
The Emerald
City of Oz is the sixth of L. Frank Baum's fourteen
Land of Oz books. Originally published in 1910, it is the story
of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live
in Oz permanently. While Dorothy, Uncle Henry, and Aunt Em are
toured through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is assembling
allies for an invasion of Oz. The climax takes place in the
Emerald City, and the Nome King and his allies are defeated
after they drink from the Fountain of Oblivion and forget all
their evil plans. Ozma uses the magic belt to send them all
home, and to forestall a future invasion of Oz, Glinda uses
a magic charm to render Oz invisible and unreachable to everyone
except those within the land itself.
Baum had intended to cease writing Oz stories
with this book, but financial pressures prompted him to write
and publish The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with seven other Oz books
to follow.
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