The Magic Cloak


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The Magic Cloak


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Queen Zixi of Ix


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"The renowned author of the wonderful Oz stories surpasses himself with a full-blown fairy tale, complete with magic wishes, palace life, an evil hag, and a poor boy and girl. ""In some ways,"" Baum confided to his son, ""Queen Zixi is my best effort."" Critic Edward Wagenknecht goes further, terming it flatly one of the best fairy tales ever written by anyone. Adding to the delight of this classic are the original illustrations by Frederick Richardson."




Queen Zixi of Ix Or, the Story of the Magic Cloak


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A Really-Truly Fairy-Story. The very title is unique and alluring, and it foretells a great feast of fun and fancy, in which Mr. Baum's whimsical imagination is at its best. The story has both a hero and a heroine, a boy and a girl--"King Bud" and "Princess Fluff"--and very wonderful things befall them. And besides the charming "Queen Zixi of Ix", there is a fine array of remarkable characters, including "Aunt Rivette", the five "High Counselors": "Tallydab", "Tellydeb", etc., "Jikki, the king's valet", the firece "Roly-Rogues", and others. Illustrated with seventy-six drawings.




The Mantle and Other Stories


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A collection of short comic stories “This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense. Sometimes things happen which you would hardly think possible.”-The Nose, Nikolai Gogol This is a collection of five short satiric stories by Nikolai Gogol that focus on the ugly and the sad elements in life.




Queen Zixi of Ix (Annotated)


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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak is a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Frederick Richardson. It was originally serialized in the early 20th-century American children's magazine St. Nicholas from November 1904 to October 1905, and was published in book form later in 1905 by The Century Company. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land of Oz, and Baum himself commented this was the best book he had written. In a letter to his eldest son, Frank Joslyn Baum, he said it was "nearer to the 'old-fashioned' fairy tale than anything I have yet accomplished," and in many respects, it adheres more closely to the fairy tale structure than the Oz books. Although Oz remains the more popular region, many readers have held that Queen Zixi of Ix is a better book than The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.




The Publishers Weekly


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Publishers Weekly


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