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A girl named Ellie lived in the vast Kansas steppe. Her father, the farmer John, worked all day in the field, and her mother, Anna, was busy with the housework.

They lived in a small van, removed from the wheels and set on the ground.

The furnishings of the house were poor: an iron stove, a wardrobe, a table, three chairs and two beds. Near the house, at the very door, a "hurricane cellar" was dug. The family sat in the cellar during storms.

Steppe hurricanes more than once toppled farmer John's light dwelling. But John did not lose heart: when the wind died down, he raised the house, the stove and the beds fell into place. Ellie collected pewter plates and mugs from the floor - and everything was in order until the next hurricane.

The steppe, flat as a tablecloth, stretched to the very horizon. In some places there were houses as poor as John's. Around them were arable land where farmers planted wheat and corn.

Ellie knew all the neighbors well for three miles around. Uncle Robert lived in the west with his sons Bob and Dick. Old Rolf lived in a house to the north. He made wonderful windmills for children.

The wide steppe did not seem dull to Ellie: it was her homeland. Ellie didn't know any other place. She saw mountains and forests only in pictures, and they did not attract her, perhaps because they were poorly drawn in the cheap books of Ellen.

When Ellie got bored, she called the funny dog \u200b\u200bToto and went to visit Dick and Bob or went to Grandpa Rolf, from whom she never returned without a homemade toy.

Totoshka barked across the steppe, chased the crows and was infinitely pleased with himself and his little mistress. Totoshka had black fur, sharp ears and small, amusingly shiny eyes. Toto never got bored and could play with the girl all day.

Ellie had a lot of worries. She helped her mother with the housework, and her father taught her to read, write and count, because the school was far away, and the girl was still too young to go there every day.

One summer evening, Ellie was sitting on the porch and reading a story aloud. Anna was washing clothes.

“And then the strong, mighty hero Arnaulf saw a wizard as tall as a tower,” Ellie chanted, running her finger along the lines. - From the mouth and nostrils of the wizard, fire flew out ... "Mom, - asked Ellie, looking up from the book, - now there are wizards?

“No, my dear. Wizards lived in the old days, and then died out. And what are they for? And without them enough trouble ...

Ellie wrinkled her nose funny.

“Still, it's boring without wizards. If I suddenly became a queen, I would definitely order that in every city and every village there should be a wizard. And so that he would perform all kinds of miracles for children.

- What, for example? - smiling, asked the mother.

- Well, what ... So that every girl and every boy, waking up in the morning, would find a big sweet gingerbread under the pillow ... Or ... - Ellie looked sadly at her rough worn shoes. “Or that all the kids have cute, light shoes.

“You’ll get the shoes without the wizard,” Anna objected. - You go with your dad to the fair, he will buy ...

While the girl was talking to her mother, the weather began to deteriorate.

Just at this very time in a distant land, behind the high mountains, the evil sorceress Gingema was conjuring in a gloomy deep cave.

It was scary in the Gingema cave. There, under the ceiling hung a stuffed huge crocodile. Large owls sat on high poles; from the ceiling hung bundles of dried mice tied to strings by their tails like onions. A long, fat snake coiled around the post and shook its flat head evenly. And many other strange and terrible things were in the vast Gingema cave.

In a large, smoked cauldron, Gingema was brewing a magic potion. She threw mice into the cauldron, tearing one by one from the bundle.

- Where did the snake heads go? Gingema grumbled angrily. - I didn't eat everything at breakfast! .. Ah, here they are, in a green pot! Well, now the potion will be great! .. These damned people will get it! I hate them! Settled around the world! Drained the swamps! Cut down the thickets! .. All the frogs were taken out! .. The snakes are being destroyed! There is nothing tasty left on earth! Unless you just eat a worm! ..

Gingema shook her bony withered fist into space and began tossing snake heads into the cauldron.

- Wow, hated people! So my potion is ready for your destruction! I will sprinkle the forests and fields, and a storm will rise, such as has never happened before!

Gingema grabbed the cauldron by the ears and with an effort pulled it out of the cave. She dipped a large pomelo into the cauldron and began to spill her brew around.

- Break out, hurricane! Fly around the world like a mad animal! Rip, break, smash! Knock down houses, lift them up into the air! Susaka, masaka, lema, rem, gama! .. Burido, furido, sama, pema, fema! ..

She shouted out magic words and splashed around with a disheveled broom, and the sky darkened, clouds gathered, the wind began to whistle. Lightning glittered in the distance ...

- Smash, tear, break! The witch yelled wildly. - Susaka, masaka, burido, furido! Destroy, hurricane, people, animals, birds! Just don't touch frogs, mice, snakes, spiders, hurricane! May they multiply all over the world for the joy of me, the mighty sorceress Gingema! Burido, furido, susaka, masaka!

And the whirlwind howled stronger and stronger, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled deafeningly.

Gingema whirled in wild delight on the spot, and the wind fluttered the hem of her long robe ...

Summoned by the magic of Gingema, the hurricane reached Kansas and was approaching John's house every minute. In the distance near the horizon, clouds were gathering, lightning flashed.

Toto was running restlessly, his head thrown back, and barking fervently at the clouds that were quickly rushing across the sky.

“Oh, Totoshka, how funny you are,” said Ellie. - You frighten the clouds, but you yourself are a coward!

The dog was really very afraid of thunderstorms. He had seen quite a few of them during his short life. Anna became worried.

- I chatted with you, daughter, and in fact, look, a real hurricane is approaching ...

The terrible roar of the wind was already clearly heard. The wheat in the field lay flat on the ground, and the waves rolled over it like a river. An agitated farmer John came running from the field.

- Storm, a terrible storm is coming! He shouted. - Hide quickly in the cellar, and I will run to drive the cattle into the barn!

Anna rushed to the cellar, threw back the lid.

- Ellie, Ellie! Hurry here! She shouted.

But Totoshka, frightened by the roar of the storm and the incessant peals of thunder, fled into the house and hid there under the bed, in the farthest corner. Ellie did not want to leave her pet alone and rushed after him into the van.

And at that time an amazing thing happened.

The house has turned two or three times like a merry-go-round. He found himself in the middle of a hurricane. A whirlwind whirled him, lifted him up and carried him through the air.

A frightened Ellie with Toto in her arms appeared at the door of the van. What to do? Jump to the ground? But it was too late: the house was flying high above the ground ...

The wind ruffled Anna's hair. She stood near the cellar, stretched out her arms and screamed desperately. Farmer John came running from the barn and rushed to the place where the van was. The orphaned father and mother looked for a long time into the dark sky, constantly illuminated by the flash of lightning ...

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Plot

Wizards

Gingema (angry)
Willina (kind)
Bastinda (angry)
Stella (kind)
Goodwin (mysterious)

Other positive characters

Prem Cocus
Fregoza

Other negative characters

Cannibal

Version difference

There are many editions of the tale, and their texts often do not coincide. The book was reworked many times by the author, and if the early versions are a translation of Baum's fairy tale with the replacement of some episodes, then in the later versions both the characters' images and the explanations of the events are significantly changed, which creates its own, noticeably different from Oz, the atmosphere of the Magic Land.

The three most famous versions and their main features:

Edition of the Year is closest to Baum's text:
- Ellie is an orphan living with her uncle and aunt;
- sorceresses and minor characters have no names;
- tiger bears live in the forest between the ravines;
- in the mountains north of the Pink Country live armless short ones with lengthening necks.
Edition of the Year:
- ellie has parents;
- sorceresses get the names we are used to;
- tiger Bears are replaced with Saber Tooth Tigers;
- the armless short ones were replaced with the Jumpers - high jumping men who hit the enemy with their heads and fists.
Third version:
- The scarecrow first speaks with a lot of reservations, gradually moving on to the correct speech;
- before meeting with the Ogre, Ellie takes off her shoes, thus losing her magical protection;
- receive the names of Fleet, Lestar, Warr;
- The jumpers call themselves Marrans;
- The Tin Woodman does not say he will bring his bride to the Purple Land;
- removed all references to elephants in the territory of the Magic Land;
- it is mentioned that the appointment of the Scarecrow as the ruler of the Emerald City caused the discontent of some courtiers.

The latter differences seem to be designed to better connect the book with the sequels already written by this time. In addition to the major changes listed above, there are many minor textual differences between these editions, such as the replacement of individual words. We can say that the tale has been completely rewritten several times.

The book is included in the program for students pedagogical universities on the academic discipline Children's literature.

Differences from the original

Plot differences

Although, if you wish, you can briefly retell the plot of The Wizard of the Emerald City and The Amazing Wizard of Oz in the same words, the differences between these books are very numerous and go far beyond retelling in another language and replacing their own names, as it might seem from the first look. Here's a short list of the main differences:

The main character is named Ellie, not Dorothy, and has parents (John and Anna Smith), while Dorothy Gale is an orphan living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em.
Volkov's description of the girl's Kansas life is less gloomy than Baum's.
The hurricane that brought Ellie to the Magic Land was caused by the evil sorceress Gingema, who wants to destroy the world (for Baum, this hurricane is a common natural disaster).
Totoshka, having got to the Magic Land, begins to speak humanly, like all the animals of the country. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he remains wordless, and only in one of the sequels of the tale does Baum explain and correct this discrepancy.
Volkov's Toto dreams of getting rid of the neighbor's dog Hector.
The orientation of parts of the Wizarding Land to the cardinal points is a mirror image of Oz: if Baum's Blue Country, where Dorothy begins her journey, is in the east, then for Volkov it is in the west.
The names of the countries have been changed by color: the Yellow Country of Baum corresponds to the Purple Country of Volkov, and vice versa. On the whole, Volkov's location of countries is less logical; the regularity has been lost, according to which the intermediate color of the spectrum - green - is between the extreme ones.
In The Wizard of Oz, sorceresses are not named, except for Glinda, the good sorceress of the South. In Volkov, the good sorceress of the Pink Land is called Stella, and the sorceresses of the North, East and West are named Willin, Gingham and Bastind, respectively.
Baum Oz has both the name of the country and the name of the wizard. Wolves does not use this name at all, the wizard's name is Goodwin, and the country is called Magic (sometimes - the country of Goodwin).
Ellie receives a prediction of three cherished desires that must be fulfilled so that she can return to Kansas.
According to Baum, the crow, who advised the Scarecrow to get brains, taught the other birds not to be afraid of him. Volkov does not say this directly. The crow itself is described by Volkov as "big, disheveled," while Baum describes it as "old."
The woodcutter in Volkov's books (and - according to the established tradition - in most subsequent Russian translations of tales about the land of Oz) is made of iron. In the original, it is tin.
Between meeting the Lumberjack and meeting the Cowardly Lion, the Wolves insert an additional chapter in which, while the Scarecrow and the Lumberjack argue about the benefits of brains and hearts, Ellie is kidnapped by the Ogre. The Scarecrow and the Woodcutter manage to free the girl and kill the Ogre.
According to Baum, not Sabretooth tigers live in the forest between the ravines, but Kalidasa - creatures with the body of a bear and the head of a tiger.
Volkov tells the name of the queen of field mice (Ramina) and explicitly states that at parting she left Ellie a silver whistle that could be summoned to her. At Baum, the queen of mice simply says that Dorothy can call her at any time by going out into the field, although Dorothy later calls the queen of mice precisely with the help of a whistle, which had not previously appeared in the narrative.
At Baum, the guard guarding the wizard's palace immediately lets the travelers through, he is simply called a "soldier with green whiskers", Volkov gives him the name - Din Gior and introduces a scene with combing his beard.
Goodwin, sending Ellie and her friends to Violet Country, orders them to remove Bastinda from power, no matter how. Oz clearly orders Dorothy to kill the evil witch.
The throne room scenes are described slightly differently, as are the scenes in which the evil sorceress sends her animals against Ellie and her companions. The words of the spell that summon the Flying Monkeys have also been changed - like all spells in Volkov's books, they are more melodic and do not require strange accompanying gestures, such as standing on one leg, as was the case with Baum.
The Flying Monkeys do not harm Ellie for fear of the silver shoes. According to Baum, the girl is protected by the kiss of the good sorceress of the North, which Volkov does not mention at all. Added a conversation in which Bastinda specifically tells Ellie that Gingema was her sister.
Ellie's stay in captivity at Bastinda is described in much more detail, the image of the cook Fregoza appears, the motive for preparing an uprising against Bastinda is added.
Although Ellie did not realize that water was deadly for Bastinda, she was aware of her fear of water. Sometimes Ellie even used the water spilled on the floor to get rid of the witch for a while.
To take away the silver shoe from Baum, the sorceress used a rod, which she made invisible. With Volkov, Bastinda lost all her magical tools and used the stretched rope.
Bastinda, when Ellie pours water on her, explains that she hasn’t washed her face for centuries because she received the prediction of death by water. At Baum, the Witch of the West simply states that the water will kill her, and then informs Dorothy that she remains the mistress of the castle, and admits that she was very angry during her lifetime.
Volkov's history of the Flying Monkeys is described in much less detail than Baum's.
At Volkov's, Totoshka discovers Goodwin hiding behind a screen by smell. According to Baum, Totoshka unmasks the wizard by accident when he jumps to the side, frightened by the roar of the Lion. There are many small differences in the following scenes, right up to the flight of the fake wizard in the balloon.
Goodwin, like Ellie, is from Kansas. Oz - out Omaha , next to Kansas. Goodwin, before becoming an aeronaut, was an actor, playing kings and heroes, while Oz was a ventriloquist.
According to Baum, the path to the good sorceress of the south goes through a forest with fighting trees and the Porcelain Land. Volkov does not have these countries completely, but a chapter with a flood has been added.
The last obstacle on the way to the Pink Land for Volkov is not the Hammerheads ( english Hammer-Heads), they are also armless short ones, shooting heads, and Jumpers (Marranas).
Back in Kansas, Ellie meets in the nearby town of Goodwin. Baum does not have this episode.

Differences in emotional and semantic dominant

Comparison of "The Amazing Wizard of Oz" and "The Wizard of the Emerald City" showed significant differences between these works on emotional and semantic dominant ... While the original text can be considered neutral or polydominant (with elements "Beautiful" and "Funny" text), Volkov's arrangement is "Dark" text. This is manifested in references to changes in emotional states absent in Baum, vocabulary with semami “Fear”, “laughter”, detailed descriptions (with an over-abundant transfer of object sizes and external characteristics of characters), more vocabulary with a “sound” component, onomatopoeia. Water is a very frequent semantic component: rain and flooding are the main events of the chapter "Flood" added by Volkov, in the description of Goodwin's palace there are ponds, fountains, a moat with water - details that are not in the original, the mention of a stream also appears when describing a ravine. crossing the road. Another feature of Volkov's text is frequent exclamation sentences, especially in passages that were absent in the original.

Translations

Despite the fact that the book itself is a translation, it has been translated into many languages, including english and german , and was published in almost all former socialist countries.

The first German edition of The Wizard was published in GDR and FRG In the middle 1960s ... For 40 years the book has gone through 10 editions; even after the reunification of Germany, when the original books of Baum became available to East Germans, translations of Volkov's books continue to appear in invariably sold-out editions. Some changes were made to the text of the 11th edition, which came out in, and subsequent ones, and the book also received a new design.

In Germany, two radio plays were produced from the book:

, Director: Dieter Scharfenberg, LITERA junior 1991, MC.
Der zauberer der smaragdenstadt, Director: Paul Hartmann, Deutsche Grammophon - Junior 1994, MC.

An audio version of the book in two was released in May. The text was read by the famous actress and director Katarina Talbach:

Der zauberer der smaragdenstadt, Jumbo Neue Medien, 2CD, ISBN 3-8337-1533-2

Screenings and staging

Summary of "The Wizard of the Emerald City"

This is the story of the girl Ellie and her dog Toto, by a strange coincidence of circumstances or really thanks to witchcraft forces that ended up in the Magic Land.

In the process of trying to return home, she meets three creatures: one made of straw, another made of iron, and the third is an ordinary-looking lion, but speaking a human language, however, like all the other inhabitants of the fabulous place. The author of "The Wizard of the Emerald City" so colorfully and in detail described the experiences of friends that children all over the world sincerely worried about them and wrote sincere letters to Alexander Volkov.

Book Two: "Oorfene Deuce and His Wooden Soldiers"

The apprentice of the evil witch and the carpenter in combination randomly became the owner of a powerful powder that turns any object into a living being. Thanks to his ability to work with wood, he creates an entire army, usurps power in the world of fairy-tale men.

Resourceful friends find a way to warn Ellie, who goes to help with her uncle and frees the country from the oppression of Oorfene Deuce, who was exiled in disgrace.

"Seven Underground Kings" - prequel to "The Wizard of the Emerald City"

The content Volkov summed up the founding of the fabulous country, how it was divided into sectors and thanks to what circumstances the country of miners arose. The life of seven kings in one kingdom is described, and the reader also learns the history of the origin of the sacred Lulling Spring. Not without Ellie: again, quite by accident, she finds herself in the world of miners with her cousin and again helps the locals to achieve justice.

"The Fiery God of the Marrans" - the fourth part of the story

In the fourth part, Oorfene Deuce again comes to the fore, having for years accumulated hatred and a desire to take revenge, as well as once again enslave the inhabitants of a fabulous country. He manages to subjugate the Marran tribe, which were one of the most primitive tribes in the Magic Land. He begins to gradually seize territory and again becomes a usurper. In parallel with these events in Kansas, Ellie's grown-up sister, along with a friend, after hearing stories about the wonderful world, go to visit and arrive on time. After a series of adventures, they save residents from oppression and happily return home.

Book Five: Yellow Mist

In this part, Oorfene Deuce appears in a completely new guise: he seemed to be reborn anew and took the bright side in the fight against an ancient witch who wants to turn the inhabitants of the Magic Land into her slaves and sends them to attack.

The whole country revolts against the witch; Annie and Uncle Charlie are also summoned to help their friends again. New adventures, a lot of interesting twists and turns delight the reader.

"The Mystery of an Abandoned Castle": the final part

Here the author departed from the idea of \u200b\u200ball parts of the "Wizard of the Emerald City": in order, all sorceresses and sorceresses, peoples were mentioned. Now Volkov decided to inscribe an alien race into the plot, because the year of writing (1975) just corresponded to various fantasies on the topic of space.

Taught by bitter experience, the residents immediately send messengers to Annie, who asks for help from Freddie and Tim. All inhabitants of the Magic Land are connected to the battle with alien beings and good, as usual, triumphs.

Significant characters

Of course, it will hardly be possible to list and mention the interesting inhabitants of all parts of the "Wizard of the Emerald City" in order, but the most important are:

Ellie is the main character of the first part, a girl from the human world, originally from Kansas.
Toto, aka Totoshka, is Ellie's dog.
The scarecrow is a fabulous man made of straw, later the ruler of the Emerald City.
Cowardly Lion, later nicknamed the Bold.
The Tin Woodman is a man made of iron and tends to rust under the influence of water.
Oorfene Deuce is a carpenter, a student of the sorceress Gingema, who twice tried to usurp the Magic Land.
Gingema is an evil sorceress living in the Blue Country. Was accidentally killed by Ellie's house.
Bastinda is an evil sorceress, afraid of water on pain of death, the ruler of the Purple Country.
Din Gyor is a soldier with a very long beard who guarded the entrance to the Emerald Palace.
Kaggi-Kar is a crow who can speak human language, a close friend of the Scarecrow.
Great Goodwin is the ruler of the Emerald City before the Scarecrow, a man who randomly became a "powerful wizard".
Faramant is a close friend of Dean Giora, the keeper of green glasses.

"The Magician of the Emerald City" and all subsequent books in this wonderful series were written by Alexander Melentievich Volkov, a Russian writer who simultaneously worked as a teacher, director of a school in Yaroslavl and studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, from which he graduated at the age of forty. He had a great desire to learn languages, which served as the basis for writing the first book "The Wizard of the Emerald City". Volkov was attracted by the story "The Amazing Wizard of Oz": he took it on his own english language as an exercise in translation, the recordings of which he eventually corrected and published as a separate novel.

The book was so popular that it was necessary to write the subsequent parts of The Wizard of the Emerald City, telling in order about all the inhabitants of this fabulous area: the munchkins and their battle with wooden soldiers, the gloomy carpenter Deuce and his repeated attempts to enslave the whole Magic Land, about the girl Ellie, her relatives and friends who, by the will of fate, ended up in this country.

The main idea, which runs as the main thread through all the parts in the order of The Wizard of the Emerald City and subsequent books, touches on the most important spiritual values, which are held in high esteem not only in the world of people, but also among fairy-tale characters and even animals: loyalty in friendship, a sense of compassion to neighbor, justice and honor.