History Literature / TheEmeraldCityOfOz

* GrandFinale: Has all the markings of one, with Dorothy coming to live in Oz and all of Oz's enemies mounting an invasion of the land.

[[caption-width-right:350: Most DEFINITELY the last book of the series...]]

* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: This is the trope that saves Oz,as even the malicious Phanfasms are rendered harmless after drinking from the Fountain of Oblivion. The Nome King is turned innocent too by the end of the book, but by ''Literature/TikTokOfOz'' he regains his cruel streak.

* HurricanePfPuns: The kitchen-supplies-based kingdom of Utensia. A sieve is the priest, because he's the holiest one there. A corkscrew is a lawyer, because he's accustomed to appearing at the bar; he's a corking good lawyer, but accused of being crooked, and laments that he has no pull at this court. [[HaveAGayOldTime Inadvertently back then, he often screws people over.]] The knives make sharp remarks. The fork has a tinny voice. It just keeps going.

The Nome King, Roquat the Red, makes plans to dig a tunnel under the Deadly Desert into the Land of Oz where he will take back his Magic Belt from Princess Ozma. His General Guph tours the neighboring lands rounding up allies, including the comical Whimsies, the strong and brutal Growleywogs, and the powerfully magical Phanfasms.

Meanwhile, Dorothy Gale's family is in dire financial straits; having to rebuild their home coupled with years of droughts have put Uncle Henry in so much debt that their farm is going to be foreclosed on. Dorothy makes a desperate plea to Princess Ozma to allow herself, her aunt and her uncle to live in Oz permanently, to which Ozma readily agrees. Dorothy's aunt and uncle are amazed to learn Oz was real all this time, and while they need some time to adjust to being transported to a magical land, they are all too happy to live in Oz. They then tour Oz in Ozma's Red Wagon and meet various intriguing people like Miss Cuttenclip and the Fuddles. Dorothy also becomes lost one morning and visits Utensia, Bunbury, and Bunnybury before the Wizard finds her again. However, when they visit the Tinman, they learn about the impending invasion of Oz...

''The Emerald City of Oz'' is the sixth book in Creator/LFrankBaum's Oz book series, published in 1910. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. Baum, tired of writing the Oz series and wanting to move on to other works, intended it to be the last Oz book; instead it is more of a SeriesFauxnale, as Baum would be forced to write the seventh Oz book, ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'', just three years later due to financial hardship.

* RealityEnsues: It turns out that losing their house in the first book to a tornado had some very real and dire consequences for Dorothy and her family; this is the first book in the series that really mentions them. The possibility of Dorothy having to do ChildLabor for their survival is even mentioned; but of course, who wants to do that when they can go to a fantasy world and be a princess?

Meanwhile, Dorothy Gale's family is in dire financial straits; having to rebuild their home coupled with droughts have put Uncle Henry in so much debt that their farm is going to be foreclosed on. Dorothy makes a desperate plea to Princess Ozma to allow herself, her aunt and her uncle to live in Oz permanently, to which Ozma readily agrees. Dorothy's aunt and uncle are amazed to learn Oz was real all this time, and while they need some time to adjust to being transported to a magical land, they are all too happy to live in Oz. They then tour Oz in Ozma's Red Wagon and meet various intriguing people like Miss Cuttenclip and the Fuddles. Dorothy also becomes lost one morning and visits Utensia, Bunbury, and Bunnybury before the Wizard finds her again. However, when they visit the Tinman, they learn about the impending invasion of Oz...

* FishOutOfWaterPlot: Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are very much fish out of water in Oz, and have some difficulty adjusting to their new lives.

* SeriesFauxnale: Baum's young fans of the 1900's just wouldn't let him stop there.

* {{Hypocondria}}: The Flutterbudgets, citizens of Flutterbudget Center, all suffer from this, along with excessive worrying over things that are unlikely to occur. Ozma ordered the Flutterbudgets to be quarantined in one city so that they wouldn't bother the rest of Oz with their excessive worrying.

''The Emerald City of Oz'' is the sixth book in L. Frank Baum's Oz book series, published in 1910. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. Baum, tired of writing the Oz series and wanting to move on to other works, intended it to be the last Oz book; instead it is more of a SeriesFauxnale, as Baum would be forced to write the seventh Oz book, ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'', just three years later due to financial hardship.

* GrandFinale: Has all the markings of one, with Dorothy coming to live in Oz and all of Oz's enemies mounting an invasion of the land.

Meanwhile, Dorothy Gale brings her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry to Oz to live (their Kansas farm having been foreclosed). They tour Oz in Ozma's Red Wagon and meet various intriguing people like Miss Cuttenclip and the Fuddles. Dorothy becomes lost one morning and visits Utensia, Bunbury, and Bunnybury before the Wizard finds her again.

* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: What Baum was trying to do by having Oz be magically cut off from the rest of the world, even including an Outro where he states that "regrettably" he is unable to tell more stories about Oz. Given that this is the sixth book in a forty-book series...it didn't stick.