Chapter summaries

The Oz Series chapter by chapter

This encyclopedia covers chapters 1 to 100 of the story and shows the world as it stands at chapter 100, so it contains spoilers up to that point. To read it spoiler free, one chapter at a time, open the interactive codex.

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Chapters 49–58

Chapter 49 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 6 entities
A powerful wind joggles the ocean, building ripples into waves and waves into billows that roll higher than houses and tall trees, with deep gulfs between them, producing a…
Chapter 50 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 5 entities
A strange noise—"Kut-kut-kut, ka-daw-kut!"—awakens Dorothy at daybreak under a clear, sunny sky. She had been dreaming she was back in the Kansas barn-yard among calves, pigs, and…
Chapter 51 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 7 entities
Walking back from the water toward the grove of trees, Dorothy comes to a flat stretch of white sand marked with queer signs, as if written with a stick. She asks the yellow hen…
Chapter 52 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 12 entities
After roughly an hour, most of the band of Wheelers rolls back into the forest, leaving only three of their number to guard the hill; these three curl up like big dogs and pretend…
Chapter 53 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 19 entities
Dorothy tells Tiktok their first task is to find a way to escape the rocks, since the Wheelers below threaten to kill them. Tiktok begins to reassure her that there is no reason…
Chapter 54 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 16 entities
The little procession walks slowly down the path between the rocks, Tiktok first, Dorothy following, and Billina trotting last. At the foot of the path Tiktok easily tosses aside…
Chapter 55 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 24 entities
Nanda brings Dorothy bread and water for supper, and Dorothy sleeps on a hard stone couch with a single pillow and silken coverlet in her tower prison. In the morning she leans…
Chapter 56 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 14 entities
The freed Dorothy first rushes into the embrace of the Scarecrow, whose painted face beams with delight, then is embraced gently by the Tin Woodman, who fears his tin arms might…
Chapter 57 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 31 entities
The Tin Woodman addresses the conference first, recounting that word reached their Ruler, Ozma of Oz, that the wife and ten children (five boys and five girls) of former King of…
Chapter 58 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 17 entities
The road leads through pretty farm country and past an inviting picnic grove, but the procession advances steadily until Billina cries out commandingly to wait. Ozma stops her…

Chapters 59–68

Chapter 59 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 20 entities
As they draw near the mountain that blocks their path and marks the furthermost edge of the Kingdom of Ev, the way grows dark and gloomy because the high peaks shut out the…
Chapter 60 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 9 entities
Hearing the Nome King's condition, Ozma becomes silent and thoughtful, and her friends look at her uneasily. Dorothy urges her not to do it, warning that a wrong guess will…
Chapter 61 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 14 entities
The King returns to his throne, relights his pipe, and the rest of the band settles for another long wait, greatly disheartened by the failure of their girl Ruler and the…
Chapter 62 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 20 entities
Dorothy, unable to find Billina, decides they must have left her in the throne room and runs down the hall to the entrance door, but it is fast closed and locked on the other…
Chapter 63 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 12 entities
While Dorothy is inside the Nome King's enchanted palace making guesses, the Scarecrow remains in the throne room with the Nome King. The King gloats that the machine man Tiktok…
Chapter 64 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 24 entities
The yellow hen Billina walks importantly through the splendid rooms of the Nome King's underground palace. Billina alone shares the Nome King's secret and knows how to distinguish…
Chapter 65 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 16 entities
After Billina enters the palace, Dorothy and Prince Evring wait while the Nome King smokes his long pipe contentedly. The bell above the throne, which rings whenever an…
Chapter 66 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 23 entities
Dorothy obeys Billina, runs behind the blinded Nome King, unbuckles his jeweled belt, and carries it to her place beside the Tiger and Lion, fastening it around her own waist. The…
Chapter 67 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 25 entities
The rock-colored Nomes on the mountainside are now silent and respectful, no longer taunting the adventurers with impudent laughter, having nothing to laugh at since their King's…
Chapter 68 Ozma of Oz: The Land of Ev and the Nome King · 27 entities
Dorothy decides to accept Ozma's invitation to return with her to the Land of Oz, reasoning she has no greater chance of getting home from Ev than from Oz, and wishing to revisit…