The Marvelous Land of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz is a children's book of the American writer Lyman Frank Baum. The story was published in 1904 under the original title The Marvelous Land of Oz (and later under the title The Land of Oz ) with illustrations by John R. Neill. This is the second volume of Oz cycle, which was one of the most popular children's books in the U.S. and moved partly in German language.
Action
Tip, otherwise known as Tippetarius, is a little boy in Oz, who lives in the land of Gillikins. He lives in the house of Mombi, an old woman who likes to see herself as a witch, but none is. Nevertheless, it deals with black magic, even though it is prohibited by law. Tip does not like Mombi and considering one day as he can scare them. For this reason, he tinkers a pumpkin man, whom he calls Jack Pumpkinhead, and compares these to the wayside. Contrary to his expectations Mombi is not frightened. Nevertheless, it is the pumpkin man just right to try a life powder to him that she has just exchanged before. The pumpkin man wakes actually come to life. Because he built the pumpkin head to frighten her, decides Mombi Tip punish. By means of another potion she wants to turn him into a marble statue. But Tip grips, along with Jack Pumpkinhead, in time to escape. He takes the life of powder. The goal of the two outlier is the Emerald City. However, since the pumpkin man can not walk well, decides Tip the road, a saw horse that looks like a horse, also to bring to life,
At the same time, a band of conspirators do together. Your goal is to finish under the command of the General Jinjur, the domination of men in the Emerald City. Furthermore, they want to overthrow the reigning there scarecrow and win the jewels of the city itself. In a quick coup succeeds the girls to surprise the defenders and occupy the Emerald City. Together with Tip, Jacob pumpkin head and the wooden horse manages the Scarecrow, to flee to his friend the sheet - lumberjack. This immediately closes his former companion and friend to to retake the Emerald City. On the way back to the Emerald City, they meet the strange Mr. SV Quassel Beetle, G.K. This means greatly enlarged Qassel Beetle, educated and sophisticated. It is a giant beetle, which adjoins the friends. Meanwhile Jinjur has to be crowned Queen and called the Witch Mombi to the consultant. Mombi is to prevent the Scarecrow, accompanied by the woodcutter returns to the Emerald City. With numerous illusion spells she is able also to unsettle the friends. But these take the road to happiness on the Queen of the field mice that leads them back on the right path and the Scarecrow represents twelve of their subjects available that are hidden in the straw.
Back in the Emerald City get friends without much of a fight to Jinjur. Too late, they realize that they have fallen into a trap. But when the Scarecrow suddenly leaves open the hidden gems in their mice, the friends can provide air for now. However, the Palace of Jinjurs is besieged soldiers. The friends decide to tinker a flying machine and wake up with the rest of life tips powder. The aircraft to bring them unto Glinda, from which they hope to help. After an adventurous flight they reach their destination. But instead of helping them, revealed to them the fairy, that the throne of the Emerald City actually heard of Princess Ozma of Oz. This is but disappeared by the earth since the fall of her father. Glinda could only bring in so much experience that doing the witch Mombi has had her fingers in the game. The scarecrow is already tired of governance is immediately ready to renounce for Ozma to the throne.
As Glinda from friends now learns that Mombi is at Jinjur, she moves with her army against the Emerald City. There they fall into the hands of Mombi. The witch is given the choice to die, or to divulge where the Princess Ozma is. As there is no way out, Mombi admits that she has transformed the princess into a boy who is none other than Tip. Tip is initially only slightly excited to be a girl, but then adds, however, of necessity.
Jinjur dares meanwhile one last attempt to hold on the throne. But to no avail. Ozma is king and rules the Emerald City, despite her youth full of wisdom and kindness. The Scarecrow accompanies her friend, the Tin - loggers in the country where they henceforth held the office of Treasurer.
Continuity error to " The Wizard of Oz"
When L. Frank Baum, " The Wizard of Oz" wrote that he had not thought to possibly write a sequel. To extend Oz according to his ideas, took tree some continuity errors in purchase that contradict the plot of the first volume: This concerns especially the person of the Wizard of Oz himself, who even does not occur in the second volume. It starts with the fact that all the inhabitants of the magic country seem to know that he was a swindler, even though he has revealed this only Dorothy and her friends. War of the addition, the first band is still the talk that he did not possess any magical abilities, tells the witch Mombi that she had learned some of their magic tricks from him. In addition, Oz told in the first volume yet, that he ordered the construction of the Emerald City. In the second volume of which is the speech that previously King Pastoria, the father of Princess Ozma, reigns over the Emerald City was that Oz had illegally brought into his possession.
Films
The Marvelous Land of Oz, together with Ozma of Oz was the inspiration for Disney's live-action film " Oz - A fantastic world " by 1985 relative transcribed exactly was the book 1986 in the Japanese animated series implemented "In the land of the Wizard of Oz"..