![]() ![]() Perhaps the cruelest and kindest thing a good book does is make you believe you live inside it for the space of a few hundred pages. ![]() For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.Īs her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught-about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. ![]() Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery-magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. ![]()
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Plot elements from The Marvelous Land of Oz are included in the 1985 Disney feature film Return to Oz. ![]() It was also adapted in comic book form by Marvel Comics once in 1975 in the Marvel Treasury of Oz series, and again in an eight issue series with the first issue being released in November 2009. The book was made into an episode of The Shirley Temple Show in 1960, and into a Canada/Japan co-produced animated series of the same name in 1986. This and the next 34 Oz books of the famous 40 were illustrated by John R. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). 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