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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Showing 61–100 of 100 chapters.

Chapters 61–70

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…
Chapter 69 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 24 entities
Dorothy passes several happy weeks in the Land of Oz as Ozma's guest, forming new acquaintances and renewing old ones. One day, sitting in Ozma's private room, she notices a…
Chapter 70 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 12 entities
The train from 'Frisco arrives very late at Hugson's Siding, reaching the open shed station at five o'clock in the gray dawn instead of midnight. A little girl carrying a wicker…

Chapters 71–80

Chapter 71 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 11 entities
When Dorothy recovers her senses she and Zeb are still falling, but more slowly, because the buggy top catches the air like a parachute and holds them back so they float downward…
Chapter 72 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 18 entities
Zeb drives the horse and buggy through the large doorway of the glass palace into a lofty, beautiful hall, and the glass-city people follow to form a circle around the room,…
Chapter 73 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 16 entities
After the Wizard cleans and disassembles his sword back into its leathern case, the man with the star orders his people to carry the two halves of the Sorcerer to the public…
Chapter 74 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 20 entities
As the cold vegetable Prince turns away to leave the enclosure, the sad children prepare to follow, but the Wizard touches Dorothy's shoulder and whispers for them to wait. He…
Chapter 75 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 20 entities
When the Wizard awakes the six colored suns still shine as they had since his arrival; rested, he finds Zeb yawning on his bench and asks him to fetch from the balloon's…
Chapter 76 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 16 entities
The Mangaboos drive Jim the horse, the kitten Eureka, and the piglets into a yawning cave, called the Black Pit, located half way up a rugged, towering mountain of deep green…
Chapter 77 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 14 entities
Passing through the glass mountain brings the travelers to a delightful valley shaped like the hollow of a great cup, bounded by another rugged mountain on the far side and soft…
Chapter 78 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 23 entities
The strangers sit willingly at the table, each place holding a fragrant dama-fruit whose sweet perfume tempts them, but Dorothy and her companions resist and satisfy their hunger…
Chapter 79 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 17 entities
The mountain before them is cone-shaped and so tall its point is lost in the clouds. Directly facing where Jim stopped is an arched opening leading to a broad stairway cut in the…
Chapter 80 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 14 entities
Another climb brings the adventurers to a third landing with a rift showing only thick rolling clouds. Resting, the Wizard draws out the nine tiny piglets and finds them plainly…

Chapters 81–90

Chapter 81 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 13 entities
The enemy hesitates to renew the attack, and a few who advance are driven back by another shot from the Wizard's revolver. Zeb thinks they have the Gargoyles on the run, but the…
Chapter 82 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 18 entities
With their eight wings the friends maintain their head start, flying as fast as the pursuing Gargoyles all the way to the great rock; when Jim alights at the mouth of the cavern…
Chapter 83 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 37 entities
The chosen way leads straight upward in a gentle incline, and the wanderers make such good progress they grow hopeful of seeing sunshine, until they come upon a huge rock that…
Chapter 84 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 32 entities
Many servants in handsome uniforms welcome the new arrivals, and when the Wizard steps out of the buggy a pretty green-gowned girl cries that it is Oz the Wonderful Wizard come…
Chapter 85 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 12 entities
Jim the Cab-horse finds himself in a large stately room with a green marble floor and carved marble wainscoting, which he accepts as a mere detail; at his command the attendants…
Chapter 86 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 26 entities
After breakfast in the Emerald City, Princess Ozma announces a holiday throughout the city in honor of her visitors, centered on the return of the Wizard, a long-time favorite.…
Chapter 87 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 23 entities
Several days of festivity follow the holiday, during which old friends reunite and enjoy the country's amusements. Ozma is happy to have Dorothy beside her because there are few…
Chapter 88 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 12 entities
At three o'clock the Throne Room is crowded for the trial. Ozma, in splendid robes of state with jeweled sceptre and coronet, sits on the emerald throne, backed by her…
Chapter 89 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: The Underground World · 25 entities
Eureka finds herself in disgrace despite not having eaten the piglet, because the folks of Oz know she tried to commit the crime and only an accident prevented her; even the…
Chapter 90 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 9 entities
A shaggy man approaches Dorothy at the farm and asks the road to Butterfield. Dorothy, noting his pleasant twinkling eye despite his shaggy appearance, begins giving complicated…

Chapters 91–100

Chapter 91 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 6 entities
The seventh road proves good, curving through green meadows and fields of daisies and buttercups past groups of shady trees, with no houses and no living creatures for some…
Chapter 92 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 19 entities
Button-Bright willingly takes the shaggy man's hand because of the Love Magnet, which caused the boy to love him at once, and the party sets off with Dorothy on one side and Toto…
Chapter 93 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 14 entities
King Dox studies Button-Bright with amusement while the boy stares back, neither fox nor child having encountered the other's like; Button-Bright, never told about fairies, is…
Chapter 94 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 13 entities
Toto, now allowed to run free, is glad to bark at birds and chase butterflies as the party travels through charming country of wild-flower fields and leafy groves that contain no…
Chapter 95 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 15 entities
At noon the travelers open the Fox-King's luncheon basket, finding roasted turkey with cranberry sauce and bread and butter; the shaggy man cuts up the turkey with his…
Chapter 96 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 18 entities
The travelers find the houses of Dunkiton all low, square, brick, and whitewashed inside and out, placed haphazardly rather than in regular streets, which puzzles strangers. The…
Chapter 97 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 10 entities
About mid-morning the travelers ascend a long hill that suddenly drops into a pretty valley where they spot a small house by the roadside—the first house they have seen—and hasten…
Chapter 98 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 13 entities
The country grows less pretty as a rocky plain covered with barren hills appears before the travelers, who near some low mountains as the once-smooth road turns rough and uneven.…
Chapter 99 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 10 entities
The shaggy man, uninjured after being struck on the breast and left shoulder by two thrown Scoodler heads, rises and urges his companions forward. The Scoodlers respond by hurling…
Chapter 100 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 17 entities
As the travelers trudge along rough terrain, all are hungry and thirsty, having eaten only apples since breakfast, so their steps lag. Crossing a barren hill, they see a line of…