Goodwin, der grosse und schreckliche Zauberer

by Alexander Volkov, Alexander Wolkow, Leonid Wladimirski (Illustrator)

Es war einmal ein Zauberer, von dem es hieß, er sei weise und klug, aber auch überaus gefährlich und schrecklich. Niemand durfte sich ihm nähern, ohne um sein Leben fürchten zu müssen. Doch davon wusste die kleine tapfere Schar nichts, als sie Einlass begehrte und die Erfüllung all ihrer Wünsche verlangte …

32 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005

About the author

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Alexander Volkov (Александр Волков) wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The first of these books, The Wizard of the Emerald City, is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed (for example, Dorothy becomes "Ellie" and Oz is renamed "Magic Land"), and several characters given personal names instead of generic ones.

First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular; and in the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story. From 1963 to 1970, four more books in the series were published, with the sixth and final story published posthumously in 1982.

Associated Names:
Александр Волков - Russian
Alexander Wolkow - German