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Glinda of Oz

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First published: 1920
Pages: 126

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The Call to Duty
22:00
Ozma and Dorothy
14:53
The Mist Maidens
4:45
The Magic Tent
7:58
The Magic Stairway
11:18
Flathead Mountain
15:39
The Magic Isle
6:34
Queen Coo-ee-oh
12:17
Lady Aurex
11:28
Under Water
7:53
The Conquest of the Skeezers
4:44
The Diamond Swan
22:31
The Alarm Bell
9:02
Ozma's Counsellors
10:56
The Great Sorceress
13:29
The Enchanted Fishes
9:31
Under the Great Dome
13:57
The Cleverness of Ervic
22:25
Red Reera, the Yookoohoo
10:49
A Puzzling Problem
10:58
The Three Adepts
9:32
The Sunken Island
8:40
The Magic Words
9:33
Glinda's Triumph
7:43

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About this book

Glinda of Oz was published in 1920, one year after L. Frank Baum's death, having been completed in draft form before his last illness. The book centers on a remote part of Oz that has not appeared before, the Skeezer and Flathead country in the far north. The two nations have been waging a long magical cold war against each other, and Princess Ozma decides Dorothy and Glinda should investigate before it turns violent.

The Skeezer queen Coo-ee-oh has built a magical glass-domed city that can submerge and surface inside an island lake. The Flathead leader Su-Dic has comparable powers. Dorothy and Ozma get trapped inside the submerged Skeezer dome partway through the book, which forces Glinda to mobilize a rescue party that essentially includes the entire Oz cast. The climactic sequence of raising the sunken dome and resolving the magical cold war is one of the more genuinely tense set-pieces in the series. As a posthumous conclusion to Baum's run, it works better than such things usually do.

About the author

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.