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Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914. The book has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man (introduced in The Road to Oz) to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King.
- L. Frank Baum
- 1914
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Ann Soforth, queen of Oogaboo, has grown tired of her tiny remote principality and its "stupid and unenterprising" people. She musters an army, consisting of sixteen officers and a private, and sets out to conquer the Land of Oz. Glinda the Good, surveying her Great Book of Records, learns of Ann's plans. She works a magic spell, so that Ann and he...
Queen Ann Soforth and the people of OogabooBetsy Bobbin and HankThe Royal Gardener of the Rose KingdomAnn's ArmyOut of OogabooMagic Mystifies the MarchersBetsy Braves the BellowsBaum was a theater enthusiast, and wrote plays throughout his career; he adapted some of his Oz books into stage productions. For Tik-Tok he reversed his usual process: he wrote the stage show first — The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) was a heavily adapted version of Ozma of Oz — and then produced a novelization of it as his eighth Oz book. This theatri...
Baum's 7th Oz book, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, had re-started and re-invigorated the Oz series in 1913, selling 17,000 copies in its first year in print. Tik-Tok of Oz was a disappointment in comparison, selling only 14,000 copies in the same time frame. The book's derivativeness from earlier Oz books has been seen by many readers and critics as a k...
Modern-day Oz authors sometimes find inspiration in Tik-Tok of Oz. Both David Hulan, in his The Glass Cat of Oz, and Karyl Carlson and Eric Gjovaag, in Queen Ann in Oz, draw upon this book for inspiration.
The Rak encountered the army of Oogaboo and was shot by Private Jo Files, the bullets breaking its jaw, left wing, and right leg. Its jaw healed within an hour, its wing healed in a day, and its leg in a week, but the Army of Oogaboo was long gone by then. (Tik-Tok of Oz)
In Tik-Tok of Oz, the Rak is briefly encountered by Queen Ann Soforth and her army and wounded by gunfire. Although its jaw, wing and leg are broken by the attack, the Rak does not die, as everything in the land of Oz lives an enchanted life and cannot die.
Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite.
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The Citizen now began to question Tik-Tok, who told in his mechanical voice about Shaggy's quest of his lost brother, and how Ozma of Oz had sent the Clockwork Man to assist him, and how they had fallen in with Queen Ann and her people from Oogaboo.
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“I do not think it is a fog,” replied Files, looking with interest at the approaching cloud. “It seems to me more like the breath of a Rak.” “What is a Rak?” asked Ann, looking about fearfully. “A terrible beast with a horrible appetite,” answered the soldier, growing a little paler than usual.
