This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hitTony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtakingNew York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, itsinhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker andgreener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers usa radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hatedcharacters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch ofthe West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn't nearly as Wicked as weimagined.