Goodwin the Great and Terrible is a prequel book to the Magic Land series by Sergei Sukhinov. It was published in 2001.
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Young Kansas actor James Goodwin dreams of becoming a millionaire. But dreams are just that, dreams, and all his endeavors fail. And what lines of work doesn’t he try after leaving the theater: carpenter, stevedore, retailer, even publisher of a newspaper (some episodes refer to the famous facts of the biography of L. Frank Baum). Then he becomes a balloonist, going up in a balloon to entertain visitors to fairs. One day, a windstorm carries him away to Magic Land. He finds himself on a magical mountain, from which he glimpses an Emerald City, but when he comes down from it, he finds that no such city exists. He passes himself off to the locals as a great wizard, and together, they begin to build the Emerald City, starting with bricks taken from the Yellow Brick Road and completing the job with stones from the Stonewood. He manages to fool the real witches into thinking that he is a genuine wizard. But after a disastrous campaign against Bastinda, Goodwin shuts himself away in his palace and comes to be known as the Great and Terrible. Many years later, as we all know, Ellie and her friends unmask him, and he departs back to Kansas.
Sergei Sukhinov's Magic Land books | ||||
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Tales of the Emerald City | 1. Gingema's Daughter 2. The Fairy of the Emerald City 3. The Sorceress Villina's Secret 4. The Sorcerer's Sword 5. The Eternally Youthful Stella 6. Parcelius the Alchemist 7. Battle in the Underground Land 8. King Midgety 9. The Sorcerer from Atlantis 10. The Knights of Light and Darkness | |||
Fairy Tales of the Emerald City | 1. Corina the Lazy Sorceress 2. Corina and the Ogre 3. The Sorceress Villina's Ward 4. The Little Dragon 5. The Crystal Island 6. Corina and the Magic Rhino 7. Three in the Enchanted Forest 8. The Black Fog 9. Master of the Winged Monkeys Prequel: Goodwin the Great and Terrible |