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Ozma of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Category: Fiction
Status: Available
Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg
About This Book
"Ozma of Oz" by L. Frank Baum is a novel published in 1907. When Dorothy is swept overboard during a storm at sea, she washes ashore in the Land of Ev with a talking hen named Billina. There she encounters menacing Wheelers, a clockwork man called Tik-Tok, and a princess who collects heads. Soon Princess Ozma arrives from Oz on a rescue mission to free Ev's royal family from the Nome King's sinister magic—but the King's challenge threatens to trap them all forever in his underground kingdom.
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About This Edition
This edition of Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum is catalogued on Libreya under Fiction and runs approximately 39,123 words — about 196 minutes of reading at an average pace. It is sourced from Project Gutenberg, the world's oldest digital library of public domain literature, founded in 1971 by Michael Hart, and every text on Libreya has been verified to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. You can view the original Project Gutenberg edition here.
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About Classic Fiction
Classic fiction represents the highest achievements of literary imagination. The novels in this genre have shaped how generations of readers understand human nature, society, and the fundamental questions of existence. Reading 19th and early 20th-century novels offers far more than historical interest: these stories explore love, ambition, morality, and identity with an insight that remains startlingly relevant today. Authors like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Austen, Hardy, and Dickens wrote for readers much like us — people trying to make sense of a complicated world — and their observations on class, relationships, power, and conscience carry across centuries with barely diminished force. Classic fiction is also where the novel as an art form reached some of its greatest heights: innovative narrative structures, deeply realized characters, and prose styles that reward slow, attentive reading. These are not museum pieces. They are living works that continue to be discussed, adapted, and argued over because they capture something essential and enduring about human experience.
