L. Frank Baum 3 hr 9 min read

A boy prince named Inga, the jolly fat King Rinkitink, and a grumbling talking goat set out to rescue Inga's captured parents, a tale that wanders far before reaching the Emerald City.

L. Frank Baum's 1916 novel, the tenth Oz book, is a rousing adventure with a rare boy hero. Warm, inventive, delightful children's fantasy. Read it for an unusual Oz tale of magic pearls, brave rescue, and a merry king, that ranges across strange lands before arriving at Ozma's banquet.

In its time

Published in 1916, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 9 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).