Oz Postcard Project

Leonid Vladimirsky

Eduard left this comment on the blog:

The author of illustrations to the Russian book The Wizard of Oz - Leonid Vladimirsky. Died April 18, 2015 at the age of 94. It is possible that this is the last interview with him: http://www.alexnews.info/archives/15469

Had you idea that Dorothy's shoes had been stolen? I mean Judy Garland's shoes. Anyway: there is one million reward offered for the slippers stolen from the museum in Minnesota ten years ago.
Read here.

OzSent

OzS #33
Sent to Jon Foster (the USA)

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another society; so let us be content.

The Lost Princess of Oz

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OzS #31
Sent to Dorothy (the USA)

OzReceived #52

Received from Ania (Hungary)

OzSent

OzS #29
Sent to Llian Pacheco (Brazil)

"Very true, Your Majesty," said Colonel Plum, eagerly. "There are many kinds of bravery and one cannot be expected to possess them all. I myself am brave as a lion in all ways until it comes to fighting, but then my nature revolts. Fighting is unkind and liable to be injurious to others; so, being a gentleman, I never fight."

Tik-tok of Oz

OzReceived #51

Received from Phillip Lerche (the USA)

OzSent

OzS #30
Sent to Eric (France)

On and on they walked, and it seemed that the great carpet of deadly flowers that surrounded them would never end.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

OzReceived #50

Received from Phillip Lerche (the USA)

I bought you a gift...

That was nice of you, what is it?

A pair of comfy slippers...

The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz?

Oz Is Everywhere

Before reading the Oz books I had not realise that it is such big referent in literature. Maybe because Oz is not so popular in my country. Then, and especially when I started this postal project, Oz started to appear everywhere.

Yesterday, for instance, I was reading Prague fatale, by Philip Kerr. This is a noir novel, so really you do not expect to find the Wizard of Oz among its pages. But in chapter 13 we meet him:

"On the radio that night the Leader eulogized the dead Heydrich, describing him as the man with the iron heart, which I assume he meant to be a compliment. Then again, its possible that our own wicked wizard of Oz might simply have confused the Tin Man with the Cowardly Lion."

Then I read in the Wikipedia:

"Prague Fatale was originally announced under the title The Man With the Iron Heart. The name had to be changed shortly before publication, when the publishers discovered there was already a novel with the same title, also about Reinhard Heydrich, by author Harry Turtledove."