Emerald City Books

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The Emerald City books (also: Zauberland series or Wunderland series ) is a series of children's books based on six fairy tales by the Russian writer Alexander Volkov .

Details

The first tale first appeared in the Soviet Union in 1939 as The Wizard of the Emerald City and is a retelling of Lyman Frank Baum 's children's book The Wizard of Oz . Leonid Wladimirski has illustrated the stories since a new edition in 1959 . In the following years the book and its sequels appeared in almost all Eastern Bloc countries and many other countries. From 1993 the series was continued by other authors, including Klaus and Aljonna Möckel under the pseudonym Nikolai Bachnow . The translator of the first five volumes in the series from Volkov's pen is Lazar Steinmetz .

Magic Land series

More adventures from the emerald city

From 1997 to 2004 the Russian publisher Armada published a ten-volume fairy tale series on the Emerald City series, written by Sergei Sukhinov : Further adventures from the Emerald City . This series offers an independent continuation of the well-known stories of Baum and Volkov. The starting point for these ten volumes is the first volume in the Volkov series “The Magician of the Emerald City”. Sukhinov neglected the following volumes and thus created another parallel wonderland, which is justified alongside Baum's and Wolkow's designs, but rather offers contemporary fantasy. These volumes have not yet appeared in Germany.

  1. Дочь Гингемы - Gingema's daughter (1997)
  2. Фея Изумрудного города - The Fairy of the Emerald City (1997)
  3. Секрет волшебницы Виллины - The Secret of the Sorceress Willina (1997)
  4. Меч чародея - The Sorcerer's Sword (1998)
  5. Вечно молодая Стелла - The Forever Young Stella (1998)
  6. Алхимик Парцелиус - Parzelius, the Alchemist (1999)
  7. Битва в Подземной стране - The Battle of the Underground Land (2000)
  8. Король Людушка - King Ludushka (2002)
  9. Чародей из Атлантиды - The Warlock of Atlantis (2002)
  10. Рыцари Света и Тьмы - The Knights of Light and Shadow (2004)

Fairy tales from the magic land

Another series of books by Sergei Sukhinov, aimed primarily at children, appeared in Russia in 2000 . These volumes have also not been published in Germany.

  1. Корина - ленивая чародейка - Korina - the lazy sorceress (2000)
  2. Корина и Людоед - Korina and Ludushka (2000)
  3. Ученик волшебницы Виллины - The pupil of the sorceress Willina (2000)
  4. Маленький дракон - The Little Dragon (2000)
  5. Хрустальный остров - The Crystal Island (2000)
  6. Корина и волшебный единорог - Korina and the Enchanted Unicorn (2000)
  7. Трое в заколдованном лесу - Three in the Enchanted Forest (2000)
  8. Черный Туман - The Black Fog (2000)
  9. Повелитель Летучих обезьян - The Lord of the Flying Monkeys (2000)

Magic land picture book

  • Alexander Volkov: The trip to Emerald City. leiv Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-89603-243-7 .
  • Alexander Volkov: Goodwin, the great and terrible magician. leiv Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-89603-244-5 .
  • Alexander Volkov: The Secret of the Golden Hat. leiv Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-89603-245-3 .

Chronological development of the events in the magic land

The events of the book The Magician of the Emerald City count as “hour 0” in the timeline . The designation is accordingly vZ or nZ

  • 6000–7000 years BC Hurricane creates the magic land
    The seven underground kings
  • about 5000 boc Arachna is put into a magical sleep by hurricane
    The yellow fog ,
  • 1000 years BC Bofaro tries to overthrow his father; Settlement of the underground land
    The seven underground kings
  • 200–100 years BC The four sisters Gingema, Bastinda, Willina and Stella share the magic land among themselves.
    The seven underground kings
  • 28 years vZ Goodwin comes to the magic land and builds the emerald city of the yellow fog in the center of the country ,
  • 0 Elli comes to the magic land for the first time, appearance of the scarecrow, the iron woodcutter and the brave lion, death of Gingema and Bastinda, Goodwin's leaving the magic land by means of a hot air balloon,
    the magician of the emerald city
  • 1 nZ Urfins first attempt to take over the rule of the magic land, Ellis second trip to the magic land, extermination of the saber-toothed tiger by the wooden soldiers
    The clever Urfin and his wooden soldiers
  • 1–2 nZ Ruf Bilan flees into the underground land, end of the reign of the seven underground kings, Ellis third and last journey to the magical land
    The seven underground kings
  • 11 years nZ Urfin's second attempt to conquer the magical land, Ann's first trip to the magical land, the last saber-toothed tiger of the magical land perishes.
    The fire god of the Marranos
  • 12 years nZ Arachna wakes up from the magical sleep and tries to conquer the magical land, Ann's second trip to the magical land of
    the yellow fog ,
  • 14 years nZ Landing of the aliens, Ann's third trip to the magical land
    The secret of the abandoned castle

Audio books

Secondary literature

  • Magic land is everywhere. (Lexicon), Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-89603-007-8 .
  • Michael Patrick Hearn (Ed.): All About the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-203-75550-5 . Also contains material related to Emerald City.