Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

A special 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the multi-million-copy-bestselling novel and basis of the Tony Award-winning musical.

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. 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.

Author: Gregory Maguire
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 11/28/2000
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.12w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780060987107

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.4
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 74167 / Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West


Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2002 01/01/2002 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 12/05/2014 pg. 73

About the Author
Maguire, Gregory: -

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of A Wild Winter Swan; Hiddensee; After Alice; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror Mirror; and the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked--the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name--Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family in New England.