wicked the life and times of the wicked witch

Frank Baum's original novel, published in 1900 and entitled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Paperback, Large Print (June 24th, 2008): $28. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Introduction When people think of The Wizard of Oz, they probably think first of the classic 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, not L.Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn’t nearly as Wicked as we imagined. It’s a book that has changed a lot of lives, including mine.This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. “I knew that Gregory Maguire had come up with a genius idea the moment I heard about Wicked. Elphaba is born with green skin, a precocious mind, and a talent for magic. What happens when a witch, green or otherwise, gets to tell her own story instead of being vilified and misrepresented by dominant cultural authority? We witches know how that turns out!” - Holly Near More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil. I felt a quiet joy that sisterhood had made its way to the Yellow Brick Road.

“Long before there was any thought of a musical, I read Wicked. It has the power to reshape one’s view of the world.” - Winnie Holzman, co-writer of Wicked: The Musical It was radical when Gregory first wrote it, and remains radical. Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years Book 1) 5 at Amazon The movie will be adapted by the Tony-winning show, which was itself based on Wicked: The Life. “At the heart of this remarkable, unforgettable novel is a wildly original premise- one that only a writer with Gregory Maguire’s intellect and daring could have dreamed up: that the Wicked Witch of the West was a real woman, with an actual name, and her own story to tell. 'Gregory gets the complications and uniqueness of women very well.' - Kristen Chenoweth The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguires breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its. It’s an astonishing achievement.' - Philip Pullman It is presented as a biography of the Wicked Witch of the West, here given the name 'Elphaba. Frank Baum, its sequels, and the 1939 film adaptation.

'Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something entirely new. Wicked is a revisionist exploration of the characters and setting of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.

Wicked the life and times of the wicked witch