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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780547055107
”FINDING OZ”: NEW FINDINGS REVEAL INSPIRATION BEHIND BAUM’S
MASTERPIECE When L. Frank Baum wrote 1900’s best-selling “The
Wizard of Oz,” he based the story’s namesake wizard on two
real-life characters of his day — showman and huckster P.T.
Barnum, and the inventor Thomas Edison. This is just one of the
many revelations in Schwartz’ book.
Schwartz — a former Business Week editor and author of “The Last
Lone Inventor” — uses his book as a lens to view the people and
events at the turn of the 19th century, showing how Baum captured
the wonder of the age he lived in. –The New York Post, April 19,
2009
A groundbreaking new look at an American icon, THE WIZARD OF
OZ.
Finding Oz tells the remarkable tale behind one of the world’s
most enduring and best loved stories. Offering profound new
insights into the true origins and meaning of L. Frank Baum’s 1900
masterwork, it delves into the personal turmoil and spiritual
transformation that fueled Baum’s fantastical parable of the
American Dream.
Prior to becoming an impresario of children’s adventure
tales—the J. K. Rowling of his age—Baum failed at a series of
careers and nearly lost his soul before setting out on a journey of
discovery that would lead to the Land of Oz. Drawing on original
research, Evan Schwartz debunks popular misconceptions and shows
how the people, places, and events in Baum’s life gave birth to his
unforgettable images and characters. The Yellow Brick Road was
real, the Emerald City evoked the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, and
Baum’s mother-in-law, the radical women’s rights leader Matilda
Joslyn Gage, inspired his dual view of witches–as good and wicked.
A narrative that sweeps across late nineteenth-century America,
Finding Oz ultimately reveals how failure and heartbreak can
sometimes lead to redemption and bliss, and how one individual can
ignite the imagination of the entire world.
Prologue: America’s Adventure
PART Ⅰ
1. No Place Like Home
2. An Unexpected Journey
3. A Girl in a Man’s World
4. Heart of a Tin Man
5. Roadblock
PART Ⅱ
6. The Mythic Oilcan
7. Witch-hunting
8. Frontier of Hope and Fear
9. The Story Store
10. The Brainless and the Heartless
11. Field of Blood
PART Ⅱ
12. The Golden Path
13. The Glimmering City
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Index
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