The Marvelous Land of Oz
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Genre | Children's novel |
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Publisher | Reilly & Britton |
Publication date | July 1904 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Preceded by | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
Followed by | Ozma of Oz |
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz,
The story features
Plot summary
The events are set shortly after the events in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and after Dorothy Gale's departure back to Kansas. The protagonist of the novel is an orphan boy called Tip.
For as long as he can remember, Tip has been under the guardianship of a cruel Wicked Witch named
To avoid being turned into a marble statue, Tip runs away with Jack that very same night and steals the Powder of Life. He uses it to animate the wooden
Meanwhile, Jack and the Sawhorse arrive at the Emerald City and make the acquaintance of His Majesty the Scarecrow. Jinjur and her crew invade the Emerald City, terrorize the citizens, and loot the city, causing great havoc and chaos. Tip joins Jack and the Scarecrow in the palace and they escape on the Sawhorse's back.
The companions arrive at the tin castle of the
When the party reaches the Emerald City, Jinjur and her soldiers imprison the group and lock them away. However, the female soldiers are scared by the field mice and leave the city's palace. However, they still occupy the grounds of the city and the palace is surrounded. The travelers are imprisoned in the palace. The Scarecrow proposes manufacturing a clever flying machine with a
The jackdaws return to their nest and attack the travelers, carrying off the Scarecrow's straw. The nest contains a large amount of paper money, with which the Scarecrow can be re-stuffed. Using Wishing Pills they discover in the container holding the Powder of Life, Tip and his friends escape and journey to the palace of
Glinda discovers the deception right away and leads the pursuit of Mombi, who is finally caught as she tries to cross the Deadly Desert in the form of a fast and long-running griffin. Under pressure from Glinda, Mombi confesses that the Wizard brought her the infant Ozma, whom she transformed into... the boy Tip. At first, Tip is utterly shocked and appalled to learn this, but Glinda and his friends help him to accept his duty and Mombi performs her last spell to undo the curse, turning him back into the fairy princess Ozma.
The restored Ozma is established on the throne after defeating Jinjur and her army. The Tin Woodman invites the Scarecrow to return with him to the Winkie Country along with Jack Pumpkinhead. The Gump is disassembled at his request (though his head was a hunting trophy that can still speak), Glinda returns to her palace in Quadling Country, the Wogglebug remains as Ozma's advisor, and the Sawhorse becomes Ozma's personal steed. The forgotten prophecy is finally fulfilled and Oz is politically whole once more, with Ozma in her rightful position as the child Queen of Oz.
Themes
Women's rights is a primary theme of the book. The kingdom that Princess Ozma and Glinda establish is a fictional manifestation of the "
Adaptations
Stage
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been transformed into
The Marvelous Land of Oz was also influenced by the story and vaudevillian tone of the stage play.[6] The character of the Wizard was in the book a good man though a bad wizard but in the play, the villain of the piece; this is reflected by the evil part he is described as having played in the backstory of The Marvelous Land of Oz.[7]
The two armies of women, both Jinjur's and Glinda's, were so clearly intended as future chorus girls that even reviews of the book noted the similarity.
It has also been suggested that the twist of Tip being the Princess Ozma also reflects stage traditions, as Tip would have likely been played by a woman in drag.
Baum had wanted
Film
In addition to being part of the basis for Baum's
The Land of Oz, a Sequel to the Wizard of Oz was a two-reel production by the Meglin Kiddies made in 1931 and released in 1932. The film was recently recovered, but the soundtrack of the second reel is missing.[11]
Filmation's Journey Back to Oz (1971), recast the army of revolt with green elephants and Tip with Dorothy (voiced by Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli, but was essentially an unaccredited adaptation of this book.
Elements from this novel and the following one, Ozma of Oz, were incorporated into the 1985 film Return to Oz featuring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy.
The Land of Oz was also adapted as two episodes of the 2000 Russian animated series Adventures of the Emerald City: The intrigues of old Mombi and Princess Ozma.
Television
The story was dramatized on the TV series
The novel was adapted in the 1986 TV series
The 1983 stop-motion cartoon W krainie czarnoksiężnika Oza (In the Land of the Wizard of Oz) combined the adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz in 13 episodes.
Audiobook
Ray Bolger recorded an audio adaptation of The Land of Oz. This was the third in a series of four audiotapes, The Oz Audio Collection, recorded by Bolger and issued by Caedmon Audio from 1976-1983.[13]
Comics
The story was also adapted in comic book form by Marvel Comics; once in 1975 in the Marvel Treasury of Oz series,[14] and again in an eight issue series with the first issue being released in November 2009.
Game
In 1985, the Windham Classics text adventure game The Wizard of Oz adapted much of the plot of this book, however it did not include the bespelled Ozma. At the story's conclusion Tip is crowned King of Oz.
Later novel
Gregory Maguire's novel Out of Oz (fourth and final volume of The Wicked Years) incorporates many plot elements of The Marvelous Land of Oz.
References
- Footnotes
- ^ The full title of the first edition was The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and Also the Strange Experiences of the Highly-Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump.
- ^ Baum, L. Frank (1904). The Marvelous Land of Oz. Reilly & Britton. p. 2.
- ISBN 9781423658726.
- S2CID 149563492.
- ^ a b Riley 1997, p. 99
- ^ ISBN 0-8129-7494-8.
- ^ Riley 1997, pp. 105–6
- ^ Riley 1997, p. 109
- ^ Rogers 2002, p. 127
- ^ Rogers 2002, pp. 127–31
- ^ "The Land of Oz, a Sequel to The Wizard of Oz". TCM. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^ ""Shirley Temple's Storybook" The Land of Oz (TV Episode 1960)". Retrieved 11 April 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Retro Review: The Oz Audio Collection". The Royal Blog of Oz. June 22, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
- ^ "GCD :: Issue :: Marvel Treasury of Oz #1". www.comics.org. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
- Bibliography
- Riley, Michael O. (1997). Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0832-X.
- Rogers, Katharine M. (2002). L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz. Macmillan.
External links
- The Marvelous Land of Oz at Standard Ebooks
- The Marvelous Land of Oz at Project Gutenberg
- The Marvelous Land of Oz public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Free PDF of The Marvelous Land of Oz from The Internet Archive
- The Marvelous Land of Oz at Open Library
- The Marvelous Land of Oz title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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