5/28/2023 0 Comments Wicked by Gregory Maguire![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The social strife described in The Wicked Years indicates that the 1900 book and the 1939 film are set in similar and internally consistent but distinct versions of Oz. The novel presents events, characters and situations from Baum's book and i 1939 film in new ways, making numerous alterations. In 2003, it became the basis for the Broadway musical, Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz. It is the first of The Wicked Years series, followed by Son of a Witch (published in 2005), A Lion Among Men (published in 2008), and Out of Oz (published in 2011). Unlike the 1939 film and Baum's book, this novel is not directed at children it contains adult language and content, including violent imagery and sexual situations. 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. 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. “When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis,” she said, “those who are the most themselves are the victims (…) Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. ![]()
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