" Scarecrow from Oz " ( English Scarecrow of oz ) - the book of American writer Leimen Baum , the ninth in a series of his books about the fabulous country of Oz . Published July 16, 1915. This book was Baume’s favorite work in the Oz. The plot of the book is dedicated to the adventures of Captain Bill and the girls Trot in the Land of Oz, where they, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrow the cruel King Jinxia Grub, who, using the magic of a sorceress, froze the heart of Princess Gloria. Captain Bill and Trot previously appeared in two other stories by Baum, Sea Fairies (Sea Fairies) and Sky Island (Sky Island). The story is partly based on the silent 1914 film His Majesty the Scarecrow from Oz .
| Scarecrow from Oz | |
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| The scarecrow of oz | |
 Cover of the first edition of the book with illustrations by John Neal | |
| Genre | children's literature |
| Author | Lyman, Frank Baum |
| Original language | English |
| Date of first publication | 1915 |
| Publisher | Reilly & Britton |
| Cycle | |
| Previous | Tik-Tok from Oz |
| Following | Rykitink in Oz |
Creation History
The book is dedicated to the “Proud and Exalted Order of Improvers” ( eng. The Lofty and Exalted Order of Uplifters ), an elite group of members of the Los Angeles Sports Club, which united a number of entrepreneurs and public figures of California . After his move to Los Angeles in 1909, Baum was a member of this club and was part of his leadership, as well as writing scripts, performing and playing the drum at club events [1] .
A group of club members also acted as key investors in creating the , established for the film adaptation of Baum’s works. Investors invested in the company about $ 100,000, Baum was appointed president and received a stake in the company as payment for the right to film his works. The first project of the company was the film , and the second - released in October 1914. Filming "The Scary" cost $ 23.5 thousand
Baum hoped that the movie “The Scarecrow” would be a success and ensure the fame of the book “The Scarecrow from the Country of Oz”, scheduled for release in 1915, but the film actually failed, without even paying for the shooting costs. The first edition of “The Scarecrow from Oz” was sold with a circulation of 14,300 copies, which was only 300 copies more than the previous book about the country of Oz - “ Teak-Tok from the Country of Oz ”, although later “The Scarecrow” became one of the most popular books of the Oz series [2] .
As in “Tik-Tok”, the plot of “The Scary” includes a romantic line - the relationship between Princess Rose and Private Files in the first, and Princess Gloria and Pon - in the second, which was uncharacteristic for earlier books in the series on Oz [3 ] . When writing the texts of performances and screenplays of films based on his books, Baum had to look for a compromise between the interests of children and adults, which inevitably affected the quality of films.
The standard subject reception of Baum’s books was the journey of an American child (usually girls) to the country of Oz, but Baum used them for the last time in “The Scarecrow” - children no longer appear in subsequent books about Oz [4] .
The character of the book Orc, voiced by Peter McNicol , appears in an episode of the American TV series of the 1990s The Oz Kids .
The book was published in Russian in 1992 in the translation of S. Belov [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Rogers, 2002 , pp. 182–3, 202
- ↑ Rogers, 2002 , pp. 203–4, 210–12
- ↑ Riley, 1997 , p. 196
- ↑ Riley, 1997 , p. 191
- ↑ Scarecrow from Oz
Literature
- L.F.Baum . Scarecrow from Oz. - M .: Terra, 1992. - 320 p. - ISBN 5-85255-259-3 .
- Rogers, Katharine M. L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz. - New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002.
- Riley, Michael O. Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum. - University Press of Kansas, 1997. - ISBN 0-7006-0832-X .
Links
- Full text
- The Scarecrow of Oz in the Gutenberg project .