And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil. "Wicked" is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. Product Details Price 8.99 8. Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. 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, wasnt nearly as Wicked as we imagined. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Frank Baum 's 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the 1939 MGM film, The Wizard of Oz. It is a revisionist look of the Land of Oz and it's characters from L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. Wicked: The Life Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is the first novel in Gregory Maguire 's The Wicked Years and illustrated by Douglas Smith.
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The book is suspensful and very imaginative."Ĭhrystie Pridemore - Books-A-Million, Christiansburg, VA It is very political and the themes are relevant to society now.
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