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 a cavern, where they 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. This is one of only two of the original fourteen Oz books (the other being The Emerald City of Oz (1910), to be illustrated with watercolor paintings.īaum, having resigned himself to writing a series of Oz books, set up elements of this book in the prior Ozma of Oz (1907). It was published on Jand reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L.
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