The Marvelous Land of Oz

Credits and rights

Original writer

L. Frank Baum

Publisher of this edition

BoingyBooks Classics

Original publisher

Project Gutenberg

Adaptation credits

John Shoufler / BoingyBooks Classics — digital edition

Original source / edition

The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)

License

Public Domain

License link

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Rights and adaptation notice

This work is in the public domain. John Shoufler published this digital edition through BoingyBooks Classics. The original work remains public domain and may be copied, adapted, and shared.

The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1904)

The second Oz book. Tip, a boy raised by the witch Mombi, escapes with a pumpkin-headed man he brought to life and discovers a shocking truth about his own identity. Features the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Woggle-Bug.

Historical Significance:
Published in 1904 as a sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, this book expands the Land of Oz into a richly detailed fantasy world. Dorothy doesn't appear — instead Baum introduced Tip, whose surprise transformation at the novel's climax into Princess Ozma has been discussed by modern scholars as one of the earliest positive depictions of gender identity in children's literature. The book established Oz as a matriarchal society ruled by women, a radical concept for 1904.

This public domain classic was originally published in 1904. Free to read and share.