Wicked is a darker and more adult-themed revisionist exploration of the characters and setting of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, its sequels, and the 1939 film adaptation. It is presented as a biography of the Wicked Witch of …

1995年9月29日 · When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so …

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. It is a revisionist look of the Land of Oz and it's characters from L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, The …

2007年9月25日 · 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.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995) by Gregory Maguire reimagines the central antagonist of the iconic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was published in 1900 by author L. Frank Baum and became central to American popular culture through the 1939 film adaptation starring Judy Garland.

"Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire offers a fresh perspective on a beloved tale. This novel reimagines the classic story of "The Wizard of Oz" by exploring the life of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.

The prologue begins with a scene set towards the end of the book as the Wicked Witch of the West looks down from a mile above Oz on Dorothy and her traveling companions.

Complete summary of Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Wicked: The...

Once upon a time in the far-off land of Oz, a green girl named Elphaba Thropp is born to a Unionist minister named Frex and his Desperate Housewives -esque wife Melena in Munchkinland. Not your typical fairy tale fare here.

2000年11月28日 · Read in awe as Maguire single-handedly changes the reputation of the most wicked witch in literature. With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our …