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“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his...

Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire’s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a...

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and not long after entering Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere.

The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire’s Son of a Witch—the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows...

The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain. Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth...

Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire brings us the enchanting second novel in the series Another Day, returning to the world he first created in Wicked. The Oracle of Maracoor, the second in the trilogy called Another Day, continues the story of Elphaba’s green-skinned...

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.

The multimillion-copy bestselling story of Wicked comes full circle in The Witch of Maracoor, the final installment of Gregory Maguire’s Another Day series Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the onetime Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko, the granddaughter of Oz’s Wicked...

“A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.” —Boston Sunday Globe Publishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguire’s Lost “a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.” Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Charles...

Au pays d'Oz, le jeune adolescent, Liir, a été vu pour la dernière fois dissimulé dans un recoin poussiéreux de Kiamo Ko, le fameux jour où Dorothy a éliminé la Sorcière. Quelques années plus tard, meurtri et plongé dans le coma, il est soigné au Cloître de Sainte-Glinda par une novice prénommée Candèle qui use de ses talents musicaux pour le faire voyager dans ses souvenirs. Alors que le pays d'Oz, après le départ du Magicien, traverse une période d'instabilité politique ouvrant la voie à toutes sortes d'ambitions, Liir parviendra-t-il à survivre assez longtemps pour devenir adulte ?

Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel Wicked as well as the hilarious middle-grade series The Hamlet Chronicles. Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with...

“A brilliant achievement.” —Boston Herald “Entertaining…profound….A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain.” —Christian Science Monitor Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more...

Qui est vraiment cette mystérieuse sorcière ? Est-elle donc si méchante ? Comment a-t-elle hérité de cette terrible réputation ? Et si c’était elle, la véritable héroïne du monde d’Oz ? Ecoutez ce livre et vous découvrirez enfin la merveilleuse et terrible vérité. Quels que soient vos souvenirs de ce chef-d’œuvre qu’est Le Magicien d’Oz, vous serez passionné et touché par le destin incroyable de cette femme au courage exceptionnel.

An interview with the author of Wicked and the new release, Son of a Witch.

Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. Her brothers have been conscripted into the Tsar's army and taken as servants in the house of the local wealthy landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in St. Petersburg - a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age.

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Wild Swans,"" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's...

Elphaba, la Perfida Strega dell'Ovest, è una donna risoluta e inflessibile. Ma fin da piccola ha dimostrato di essere fuori dagli schemi: questa è la storia di una ragazzina semplicemente eccezionale, per cui è impossibile non provare empatia. Plasmata dai comportamenti di una madre intemperante e distratta, Melena, e di un padre bigotto, Frex, come tutti i bambini la piccola Elphie soffre di gelosia quando nascono la sorella Nessarosa, la santarellina, e il fratello Guscio, delinquente in erba.

Elfaba, la Perfida Strega dell'Ovest "Per definizione, il male si nasconde." Glinda "Sono ricca sfondata, l'avresti mai detto? Chi immaginava che la beneficenza fosse così redditizia?" Principessa Elefantessa Nastoya "Quando ci troviamo di fronte a un bivio, quando l'aria puzza di tragedia, a rimetterci sono coloro che non indossano una maschera." Il Mago di Oz "Il punto, mia verde fanciulla, è che non tocca a una giovane, né a una studentessa, né a una cittadina decidere ciò che è giusto e ingiusto. È compito dei capi."

Was hat es mit der geheimnisvollen Hexe des Westens auf sich? Von wem stammt sie ab? Wie wurde sie so böse? "Wicked" erzählt die aufregende Vorgeschichte des "Zauberer von Oz". Elphaba ist als junge Hexe ein ernsthaftes, intelligentes und unglücklicherweise grünhäutiges Mädchen. Ihr Vater ist ein sittenstrenger Prediger, ihre Mutter eine leichtfertige Schönheit. An der Universität studiert sie Biologie und forscht besonders über grundlegende Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Menschen und Tieren. Unterdessen ist aber der Zauberer von Oz dabei, die Rechte der Tiere grausam einzuschränken.

Was hat es mit der geheimnisvollen Hexe des Westens auf sich? Von wem stammt sie ab? Wie wurde sie so böse? Wicked erzählt die aufregende Vorgeschichte des Zauberer von Oz. Elphaba ist als junge Hexe ein ernsthaftes, intelligentes und unglücklicherweise grünhäutiges Mädchen. Ihr Vater ist ein sittenstrenger Prediger, ihre Mutter eine leichtfertige Schönheit. An der Universität studiert sie Biologie und forscht besonders über grundlegende Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Menschen und Tieren. Unterdessen ist aber der Zauberer von Oz dabei, die Rechte der Tiere grausam einzuschränken.