Ruth Plumly Thompson 2 hr 54 min read

The most surprising Oz news in ages: a search begins for the long-lost king of Oz, the ruler who vanished before Ozma's day, in an adventure that ranges far beyond the Emerald City.

Ruth Plumly Thompson's 1925 novel is a lively entry in the beloved Oz series. Warm, whimsical, gloriously inventive. Read it for a rousing quest through Oz and the great world beyond, as Thompson, the second Royal Historian, unravels the mystery of a king lost long before Ozma came to the throne.

In its time

Published in 1925, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 54 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

John R. Neill