Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (normally referred to as simply Wicked) is the life story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. It's written by Greg Maguire. He fashions the Wicked Witch of the West's name from the initials of the author of The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum-->L. F. B.-->El-Fuh-Buh-->Elphaba). It begins with the day Elphaba was born and ends when Dorothy leaves Oz. It's a fantasy world that is so real you forget it's based on a children's book. This book has numerous themes: love lost, the nature of evil, leadership and its corruption, forgiveness, and destiny vs. free will, to name a few.
If you loved the movie The Wizard of Oz, you will get a whole new take on the land of Oz and its inhabitants... is the Wicked Witch West truly wicked at all or simply misunderstood, is Oz truly as idyllic as it seems on this surface or is just as (or possibly more) corrupted by greed and other evils as the world we live in? I guess you'll have to read Wicked for yourself to find out.
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