History Literature / OzmaOfOz

* TomboyishName: Bill the hen. Dorothy insists on re-naming her Billina.

This one brings back Dorothy Gale, who did not appear in the second Oz book, ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz''. In this one, Dorothy and her Uncle Henry have taken a ship to Australia to visit some relations. Dorothy wanders on deck when she shouldn't and winds up being blown overboard in a storm--luckily for her, along with a chicken coop that was tied to the deck. Dorothy is adrift at sea in her chicken coop, along with a chicken, who starts to talk. Dorothy and Billina the chicken eventually drift to land, where they find themselves not in Oz, but in the similarly strange and wonderful Land of Ev. After being hounded by the Wheelers, a people with wheels instead of hands and feet, Dorothy discovers the clockwork robot Tik-Tok, who helps clear away the Wheelers. Dorothy goes to the castle of Princess Langwidere for assistance, a narcissist who collects heads and switches them with her own at will. After Dorothy refuses to trade her head for one of the princess's, she imprisons Dorothy. And as the title indicates, eventually Dorothy has a rendezvous with Princess Ozma, the heroine of ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'', who travels to Ev on a mission to free their royal family from the clutches of the Nome King. Ozma frees Dorothy and she accompanies them to the Nome King's dominions. The Nome King has transformed the royal family of Ev into inanimate objects, and challenges the Oz citizens to guess which of his objects are the royal family; at the risk of being transformed themselves if they guess incorrectly.

This one brings back Dorothy Gale, who did not appear in the second Oz book, ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz''. In this one, Dorothy and her Uncle Henry have taken a ship to Australia to visit some relations. Dorothy wanders on deck when she shouldn't and winds up being blown overboard in a storm--luckily for her, along with a chicken coop that was tied to the deck. Dorothy is adrift at sea in her chicken coop, along with a chicken, who starts to talk. Dorothy and Billina the chicken eventually drift to land, where they find themselves not in Oz, but in the similarly strange and wonderful Land of Ev. And as the title indicates, eventually Dorothy has a rendezvous with Princess Ozma, the heroine of ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'', who travels to Ev on a mission to free their royal family from the clutches of the Nome King, who has transformed them into inanimate objects, and challenges the Oz citizens to guess which of his objects are the royal family; at the risk of being transformed themselves if they guess incorrectly.

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The novel marks the beginning of Baum's intent to make the Oz books an ongoing series; something he was not always fond of having to continue. Here he brings Dorothy back by popular demand, and backtracks on some of the elements which his fans disliked in the second book. The Nome King goes on to be a recurring villain in the series.

This one brings back Dorothy Gale, who did not appear in the second Oz book, ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz''. In this one, Dorothy and her Uncle Henry have taken a ship to Australia to visit some relations. Dorothy wanders on deck when she shouldn't and winds up being blown overboard in a storm--luckily for her, along with a chicken coop that was tied to the deck. Dorothy is adrift at sea in her chicken coop, along with a chicken, who starts to talk. Dorothy and Billina the chicken eventually drift to land, where they find themselves not in Oz, but in the similarly strange and wonderful Land of Ev. And as the title indicates, eventually Dorothy has a rendezvous with Princess Ozma, the heroine of ''The Marvelous Land of Oz''.

-->"What!" cried Polly, looking at Dorothy curiously. "Do you belong to the nobility?"

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Billina almost eats Ozma as a grasshopper ornament, but discovers her real nature just in time, and restores her form.

"Princess Langwidere looked at Dorothy and said, as if talking to herself: You are rather attractive, not at all beautiful you understand...but, you have a certain style of prettiness, that is different from that of any of my thirty heads. I believe I'll take your head, and give you number twenty-six for it!"

* HumongousMecha: The Iron Giant ([[Film/TheIronGiant no relation]]) guarding the path to the Nome Kingdom.

!!Tropes:

* OffWithHisHead: Princess Langwidere offers a unique non-fatal example. She collects heads to swap with her own on certain days to suit her mood which come with different personalities, and she attempts to force Dorothy to trade her head for one she doesn't mind letting go from her collection (which is a case of BlueAndOrange Morality, as the Princess thinks it is a perfectly fair and equitable deal—even generous, and simply can't understand why Dorothy objects).

* OffWithHisHead: Princess Langwidere offers a unique non-fatal example. She collects heads to swap with her own on certain days to suit her mood which come with different personalities, and she attempts to force Dorothy to trade her head for one she doesn't mind letting go from her collection (which is a case of Blueand Orange Morality, as the Princess thinks it is a perfectly fair and equitable deal—even generous, and simply can't understand why Dorothy objects).

* SuicideBySea: Long before the events of the main narrative, King Ev sold his wife and kids to the [[BigBad Nome King]] in exchange for a longer life. He didn't realize until after the fact [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone how horrible what he did was]], and since he couldn't do anything to get them back, he [[SenselessSacrifice threw himself into the ocean, wasting the very thing he'd sold his family for.]]