L. Frank Baum 3 hr 50 min read

The wicked Nome King plots to conquer Oz through a secret tunnel, even as Dorothy brings Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to live in the Emerald City at last, two journeys converging on a single fateful day.

L. Frank Baum's 1910 novel is the sixth Oz book, a rich and eventful entry in the beloved series. Warm, inventive, delightful. Read it for classic Oz, Dorothy's grand tour of the land's strangest corners set against the Nome King's dark conspiracy, in one of Baum's most ambitious fairyland adventures.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 50 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).