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In the novel, Dorothy, the Scarecrow ( the American farmer ), Tin Woodman ( the industrial worker ), and Cowardly Lion ( William Jennings Bryan ), march on the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, the Capital ( or Washington, D. C .), demanding relief from the Wizard, who is interpreted to be the President.
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T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".
A scene from In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ), directed by Nicholas Ray and based on a novel by Hardboiled # Noir fiction | noir fiction writer Dorothy B. Hughes.
Gaudy Night ( 1935 ) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth in her popular series about aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.
In modern times, Dorothy Dunnett's novel King Hereafter aims to portray a historical Macbeth, but proposes that Macbeth and his rival and sometime ally Thorfinn of Orkney are one and the same ( Thorfinn is his birth name and Macbeth his baptismal name ).
Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”
In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.
A character in the Dorothy L. Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise appears at a fancy-dress party as a member of the Vehmgericht, which allows him to wear a hooded costume to disguise his identity.
* August 15 – MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
** MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, is released in theaters everywhere.
In the mystery novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers and its series adaptation by BBC Television, Lord Peter Wimsey solves the case by reference to Manon Lescaut.
* Dorothy M. Johnson, Witch Princess ( novel, 1967 )
In 1938, Dorothy Baker borrowed the titles of her friend Otis Ferguson's two articles and published the novel Young Man with a Horn.
Geoffrey and Katharine Clifton were based on Sir Robert Clayton East-Clayton, 9th Baronet of Marden, and 5th Baronet of Hall Place, Maidenhead, and his wife, Dorothy, both of whom were dead by the time the novel takes place.
Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward in 1925, as well as a play which Dorothy Heyward helped him to write which was premiered in 1927.
DuBose Heyward's wife, Dorothy Heyward, began working on a staged adaptation of her husband's novel soon after it was published in 1925.
His detective novel, Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery.
Instead of depicting Dorothy, the novel focuses on Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West.
Murder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1933.
The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the novel The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough.
* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.
The Bodleian is used as background scenery in Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night, features in Michael White's Equinox, and is one of the libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway ( one of Bodley's librarians ) in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead.
The 1926 novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers depicts the ( fictional ) trial in the House of Lords of a duke who is accused of murder, and eventually acquitted.
* Dorothy Porter: verse novel, Akhenaten ( 1991 )
The storyline of his novel, The Search, is referenced in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night, and is used to help elicit the criminal's motive.
Marcel Proust is an important early example of a writer using the stream of consciousness technique in his novel sequence À la recherche du temps perdu ( 1913 – 1927 ) ( In Search of Lost Time ), while Dorothy Richardson is the first to use it in English, in Pointed Roofs ( 1915 ), the first novel in her novel sequence Pilgrimage ( 1915 – 35 ).
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Baum hoped that the movie would be a success, and provide a big publicity boost to the Scarecrow novel to follow in 1915.
The first edition of the novel sold around 14, 300 copies, only a couple hundred more than its predecessor, Tik-Tok of Oz — though in the long run The Scarecrow of Oz would be one of the more popular installments in the Oz series.
* Matthew Reilly's 2011 novel Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves includes " red uranium " as a crticial part of a Soviet-era superweapon that can ignite the atmosphere.
* The Kormoran project, a fictional plan in the Matthew Reilly novel Scarecrow to create nuclear-armed warships disguised as merchant vessels
The novel inspired the William Buchanan novel Christopher Syn, upon which the Disney film The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh is based, hence the similarities between the plots.
In this novel the Scarecrow discovers that, in a previous incarnation, he was human.
Baum, however, strongly hints that the fear of eggs is unjustified, as the Scarecrow repeatedly pelts him with eggs at the end of the novel, causing him no apparent harm beyond stress enough to allow Dorothy Gale to remove his Magic Belt.
In the novel, while on their way to the Emerald City, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion walk through a field of poppies, and both Dorothy and the Lion mysteriously fall asleep.
As in the novel, Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion fall asleep, but in a direct reversal of the book, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man are unable to carry Dorothy.
* The Scarecrow ( 1982 film ), New Zealand film about a killer in a small town, based on a 1963 novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
* The Scarecrow ( Michael Connelly novel ), a 2009 crime novel by Michael Connelly
* Scarecrow ( novel ), 2003 novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly
* The Scarecrow ( Williams novel ), a 2009 novel by Sean Williams
Scarecrow is the fifth Matthew Reilly novel, and the third to feature the main character Captain Shane Schofield, USMC.
He is the protagonist in three Matthew Reilly novels and a novella, Scarecrow being the third novel.
Book II's father, Book, was a loyal friend of Schofield who was killed in the first Scarecrow novel Ice Station.
Other than Scarecrow he is the only marine to survive the trap in Siberia at the beginning of the novel.
The character resembles W. W. Denslow's depiction of the Wicked Witch of the West ( complete with eyepatch, pigtails and umbrella ), and her role in the story is based on the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and inspired the witch Blinkie in the novel The Scarecrow of Oz.
Abasiophilia plays a prominent role in the Michael Connelly novel The Scarecrow, in which a serial killer is motivated by abasiophilia.
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