The Marvelous Land of Oz Book download in PDF, ePub & Mobi

The Marvelous Land of Oz is a fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum and originally published in 1904. It continues the story begun in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The events take place shortly after the story told in the first book. Tip is a boy who lives in the northern country of Oz and has been raised by the wicked witch Mombi. The boy lives a dull and hard life on the farm, where the days go by in a nondescript way.

One day he has the idea to scare Mombi and takes a pumpkin from the garden, carves a face out of it and places it on a body made of sticks and brightly colored clothes, creating a pumpkin man. This did not amuse Mobi, who decides to turn him into a marble statue.

Faced with this threat, Tip decides to flee with his pumpkin companion, Pumpkin Head Jack, and begins an adventure in the direction of the Emerald City in search of his own destiny. Old acquaintances like the Scarecrow and the Tin Man will appear and they will have to face both the evil witch and other dangers along the way.

"In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.
This boy remembered nothing of his parents, for he had been brought when quite young to be reared by the old woman known as Mombi, whose reputation, I am sorry to say, was none of the best. For the Gillikin people had reason to suspect her of indulging in magical arts, and therefore hesitated to associate with her."