All Are Convinced by Dorothy That the Wizard Can Help Them Too
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Due west. W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George 1000. Hill Visitor in Chicago on May 17, 1900, and has since been reprinted countless times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz , which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 flick version. The story chronicles the adventures of a daughter named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in role to the 1939 MGM movie, it is ane of the all-time-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum writing thirteen more Oz books.
Baum defended the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife," Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901, the publisher, the George K. Loma Company, completed printing the first edition, which probably totaled effectually 35,000 copies. Records indicate that 21,000 copies were sold through 1900.
The original book has been in public domain in the US since 1956. Baum's xiii sequels entered public domain in the United States from 1960 through 1986. The rights to these books were held by the Walt Disney Company, and their impending expiration was a prime motivator for the production of the 1985 pic Return to Oz, based on Baum's second and third Oz books.
Contents
- 1 Plot summary
- ii Illustration and pattern
- 3 Sources of images and ideas
- iv Critical response
- 5 Adaptations
- half dozen International rights
Plot summary
The story follows a "voyage and return" theme, much like Peter and Wendy. Dorothy is an orphaned 12-year onetime girl who lives in a farmhouse in Kansas in the twelvemonth 1889 with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and footling dog Toto. 1 24-hour interval the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the Land of the Munchkins in the Oz. The falling firm kills the ruler of the Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the Eastward. The Expert Witch of the North comes with the Munchkins to greet Dorothy and gives Dorothy the Silver Shoes that the Wicked Witch of the Due east had been wearing when she was killed. In order to return to Kansas, the Proficient Witch of the Northward tells Dorothy that she will have to get to the "City of Emeralds" and ask the Sorcerer of Oz to help her.
On her way down the road paved with xanthous brick, Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the pole he is hanging on, restores the movements of the rusted Tin Woodman with an oil can, and encourages them and the Cowardly Lion to journey with her and Toto to the Emerald Urban center. The Scarecrow wants to get a brain, the Tin Woodman a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, courage. All are convinced by Dorothy that the Sorcerer can aid them also. Together, they overcome obstacles on the way including narrow pieces of the xanthous brick road, Kalidahs, a river, and the Deadly Poppies.
When the travelers arrive at the Emerald Urban center, they are asked to use greenish spectacles by the Guardian of the Gates. When each traveler meets with the Wizard, he appears each fourth dimension as someone or something unlike. To Dorothy, the Wizard is a giant caput; the Scarecrow sees a beautiful woman; the Tin Woodman sees a ravenous beast; the Cowardly Lion sees a ball of fire. The Wizard agrees to help each of them, but one of them must kill the Wicked Witch of the W who rules over the Winkie Country.
Equally the friends travel across the Winkie Land, the Wicked Witch sends wolves, crows, bees, and and then her Winkie soldiers to attack them, but they manage to get past them all. Then, using the power of the Aureate Cap, the Witch summons the Winged Monkeys to capture all of the travelers. When the Wicked Witch gains i of Dorothy's silvery shoes by trickery, Dorothy in acrimony grabs a bucket of water and throws it on the Wicked Witch, who begins to melt. The Winkies rejoice at being freed of the witch's tyranny, and they help to reassemble the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. The Winkies love the Tin Woodman and they ask him to become their ruler, which he agrees to practice afterwards helping Dorothy return to Kansas.
Dorothy uses the Golden Cap to summon the Winged Monkeys to carry her and her companions back to the Emerald City, and the King tells how they were bound by an enchantment to the cap by Gayelette.
When Dorothy and her friends meet the Wizard of Oz again, he tries to put them off. Toto accidentally tips over a screen in a corner of the throne room, revealing an old man who had journeyed to Oz from Omaha long ago in a hot air balloon.
The Magician provides the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Panthera leo with a head total of bran, pins, and needles ("a lot of bran-new brains"), a silk heart stuffed with sawdust, and a potion of "courage", respectively. Because of their faith in the Magician'southward power, these otherwise useless items provide a focus for their desires. In club to aid Dorothy and Toto get home, the Wizard realizes that he will have to have them domicile with him in a new balloon, which he and Dorothy style from green silk. Revealing himself to the people of the Emerald City ane last fourth dimension, the Magician appoints the Scarecrow, past virtue of his brains, to dominion in his stead. Dorothy chases Toto later on he runs after a kitten in the crowd, and earlier she can make it back to the balloon, the ropes suspension, leaving the Wizard to rise and float abroad alone.
Dorothy turns to the Winged Monkeys to carry her and Toto habitation, only they cannot cross the desert surrounding Oz. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers advises that Glinda, the Good Witch of the Due south, may be able to send Dorothy and Toto home. They, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Panthera leo journey to Glinda'due south palace in the Quadling Country. Together they escape the Fighting Copse, contrivance the Hammer-Heads, and tread carefully through the Red china State. The Cowardly Lion kills a giant spider, who is terrorizing the animals in a forest, and he agrees to return there to rule them after Dorothy returns to Kansas—the biggest of the tigers ruling in his stead as before. Dorothy uses her third wish to fly over the Hammer-Heads' mount.
At Glinda'southward palace, the travelers are greeted warmly, and it is revealed by Glinda that Dorothy had the ability to become dwelling house all forth. The Silver Shoes she wears can take her anywhere she wishes to become. She tearfully embraces her friends, all of whom will be returned, through Glinda's use of the Golden Cap, to their respective sovereignties: the Scarecrow to the Emerald City, the Tin can Woodman to the Winkie Country, and the Cowardly Lion to the forest. Then she will requite the Cap to the rex of the Winged Monkeys, so they volition never be under its spell again. Dorothy and Toto render to Kansas and a joyful family unit reunion. The Silver Shoes are lost during Dorothy'southward flight and never seen again.
Illustration and design
The book was illustrated by Baum's friend and collaborator W.W. Denslow, who also co-held the copyright. The design was lavish for the time, with illustrations on every page, backgrounds in dissimilar colors, and several colour plate illustrations. The distinctive wait led to imitators at the time, most notably Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch. The typeface was the newly designed Monotype Old Style.
Sources of images and ideas
Baum best-selling the influence of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, which he was deliberately revising in his "American fairy tales" to include the wonder without the horrors.
Local fable has it that Oz, also known equally The Emerald City, was inspired by a prominent castle-like building in the community of Castle Park near Holland, Michigan where Baum summered. The yellow brick route was derived from a route at that time paved by yellow bricks. Baum scholars often reference the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (the "White City") as an inspiration for the Emerald Urban center. Other legends allude that the inspiration came from the Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego, California. Baum was a frequent guest at the hotel, and had written several of the Oz books in that location.
Another influence lay in the Alice books of Lewis Carroll. Although he constitute their plots incoherent, Baum identified their source of popularity equally Alice herself, a child with whom the kid readers could identify; this influenced his option of a protagonist.
Disquisitional response
The novel received skilful critical notices upon release; The New York Times wrote in September 1900:
[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] is ingeniously woven out of commonplace material. It is of course an extravaganza, merely will surely be plant to appeal strongly to kid readers as well as to the younger children … [the volume] rises far above the average children's book of today, loftier as is the nowadays standard.[i]
In modernistic times, information technology is widely held as a classic of children's literature; however, it has repeatedly come up under fire over the years. Some religious commentators, for example, have objected to Baum's portrayal of "good witches".[2] On a more than secular notation, feminist author Margery Hourihan has described the volume as a "banal and mechanistic story which is written in flat, impoverished prose" and dismissed the central character from the moving picture accommodation of the volume equally "the girl-woman of Hollywood".[3]
Adaptations
The Magician of Oz has been adjusted to other media numerous times, most famously in the 1939 picture show starring Judy Garland. There take been several preceding stage and screen adaptations, too as subsequent phase and screen adaptations and sequels for theatrical release, television circulate, and home video. The story has been translated into other languages (at least once without permission), and adapted into comics several times. Following the lapse of the original copyright, the characters accept been adapted and reused in spin-offs, unofficial sequels, and reinterpretations, some of which take been controversial in their handling of Baum's characters.
International rights
- In Canada, the Trademark "Wizard of Oz" is owned by EnTechneVision Inc. and has been licenced to the online children's network KIDOONS Inc.
- Purchase The Wonderful Sorcerer of Oz from an independent bookseller
- Wikipedia: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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