L. Frank Baum 3 hr 4 min read

One morning Ozma herself has vanished, and with her every magical instrument in Oz, the Wizard's tools, Glinda's Great Book, and Dorothy sets out to find the lost princess.

L. Frank Baum's 1917 novel is a delightful entry in the beloved Oz series, a fairyland mystery. Warm, inventive, charming. Read it for a rousing Oz adventure, the theft of Oz's greatest magic and the disappearance of its ruler, as Dorothy and her friends fan out across the land to solve a genuine whodunit.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 4 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).