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| | Books, Listed by Author |
 | | A ghost must do penance for a wicked life by easing the way for mortal lovers. | | | * _ Isaac Asimov’s Utopia ( SFBC #14692, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $8.98, 351pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [ Robot ] Reprint (Orion 1996) SF novel, third book of the “Caliban” series continuing the late Isaac Asimov’s “Robot” series. | | | * * Vampire Readings: An Annotated Bibliography ( Scarecrow Press 0-8108-3504-5, Oct ’98 [Nov ’98], $19.50, 161pp, tp) Non-fiction, reference, annotated guide to novels, anthologies, and novellas, with special sections for young adult, and “The Unread Undead”; indexed by author and title. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b9.html
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| | Keene Public Library Fiction Titles |
| | Reap a wicked harvest : a gardening mystery | | | The woman who knew Gandhi : a novel | | | A question of blood : an Inspector Rebus novel |
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http://www.ci.keene.nh.us/library/Booklists/fic0304.htm
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| | Wicked (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Wicked (ISBN 0060987103), or Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a novel by Gregory Maguire. | | | Wicked, the hit Broadway musical based upon the novel, is also very different in tone from Maguire's book. | | | In the context of the discussions about evil by characters in the novel, it is debatable whether Elphaba is wicked at all. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_(novel)
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| | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Fantasybookspot |
| | Wicked is not a children’s novel, and I think adults will find it both imaginative and creative at times, finding the satirical look into OZ both as welcomed revisit to their past, and an intriguing read, filling some familiar characters with added substance not seen in the film. | | | Wicked is just more intriguing than it is good, my final grade for Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is a Wicked a 6.5. | | | The premise of Wicked is in essence Maguire’s telling of the life of the Elphaba, better known to most of us as the Wicked Witch of the West. |
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http://www.fantasybookspot.com/?q=node/view/123
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| | Wicked - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Wicked (novel), a novel by Gregory Maguire based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; full title: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | | | Wicked (musical), a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and based on the novel above | | | Wicked as an adverb meaning "very" originated in Puritanical New England with the idea that anything that was fun, exciting or good was "wicked". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked
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| | Tufts E-News -- The Other Side of the Rainbow |
| | Bound for Broadway, ‘Wicked’ – the best-selling novel by Tufts graduate Gregory Maguire – tells the story of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ from a new perspective: the Wicked Witch of the West. | | | Indeed, when the novel was first published in 1995, critics raved about Maguire’s ability to add new layers of fantasy to a timeless classic – including noted author John Updike, who called Wicked “an amazing novel” in an article in The New Yorker. | | | Taking the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the West, the Tufts graduate details what life was like along the yellow brick road before the cyclone swept Dorothy’s house into Munchkinland. |
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http://www.tufts.edu/communications/stories/062003Wicked.htm
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| | JohnK's Book Reviews: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
| | Wicked is a novel that inspires the reader to follow the life of Elphaba, to see what shapes her personality as she grows older, and eventually leads us to the revelation of what it means to be a witch and how things are not necessarily what we perceived them to be in the Baum stories. | | | Wicked is a strong novel, full of interesting, well-motivated characters, and as such deserves to be read by all who are fans of the Oz books. | | | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire |
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http://www.comnet.ca/~jkahane/sf/books/wicked.html
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| | Wicked Tickets - Cheap Wicked Musical Broadway Tickets |
| | Wicked-the Untold Story of the Witches of Oz is a new musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. | | | Wicked the musical is not Wicked the novel. | | | While the novel is its source, the musical presents only pieces of it, in a much simplified form, and often diverging wildly from the novel's narrative. |
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http://www.onlineseats.com/theater/wicked-tickets/index.asp
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire - Paperback |
| | Gregory Maguire's shrewdly imagined and beautifully written first novel, "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," not only revives her but re-envisions and redeems her for our times. | | | Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. | | | I am fifteen and am mature enough to read this novel but I am rather disappointed that a book that is said to be 'excellent' has done nothing but talk about sex for the first chapter. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2X5IMAZDNZ&isbn=0060987103&itm=1
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| | Articles - The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) |
| | In 1995, Gregory Maguire released the critically acclaimed novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, an other-side-of-the-story look at the witches of The Wizard of Oz: Glinda and Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West). | | | In Baum's novel, there is no hint that Oz is anything but a real place, to which Dorothy returns repeatedly (she eventually moved to Oz permanently and was joined by her aunt and uncle) in the numerous sequels. | | | She does inform the child of where she is, and that she killed the Wicked Witch of the East by dropping her house on the ruby-slippered victim. |
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http://www.abuabu.com/articles/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)
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| | Wicked |
| | It is all within Gregory Maguire's novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," a cleverly conceived (I am told) prequel to Frank L. Baum's beloved children's classic "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which, of course, led to the film "The Wizard of Oz." | | | Not having read the novel, I can't attest to whether the musical copies the same satirical thrust of the novel, but I would wager that the campy tone that buoys the text when it gets a bit too moralizing is probably unique to the musical. | | | For many of us, just finding out why the wicked witch is green, how the monkeys got to fly, and what made Elphaba wicked is worth the steep price of admission. |
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http://theaterscene.net/ts/articles.nsf/BM/CBF8D5075A4BCD6385256DDC006CF6A6
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| | ICv2 News - Image Announces 'The Wicked West' |
| | Image Comics has announced the October release of The Wicked West, a new graphic novel written by Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell and illustrated by Neil Vokes, the same trio responsible for The Black Forest graphic novel, which Image published this April and which has sold out its first edition. | | | Namely to deliver a quality book for a reasonable price." To that end Image is publishing the 96-page full color The Wicked West graphic novel with a very reasonable cover price of just $9.95. | | | The hero of The Wicked West migrates to a small west Texas frontier town, which then comes under attack from hordes of vampires. |
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http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/5276.html
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| | Wicked The Musical @ MusicalTheatreAudition.com |
| | This is a new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of The West," a dark, and pleasantly shocking alternate version of the events described in L. Frank Baum's orginal novel. | | | Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West (Novel) | | | Wicked is a new musical that is receiving a great deal of attention. |
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http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/wicked.html
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| | Wicked, a CurtainUp review |
| | While Wicked could not exist without Baum's classic tale this new musical's real inspirational source is Gregory Maguire's cleverly conceived and executed novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. | | | Maguire borrowed the Wicked Witch and other Oz characters and used Baum's Land of Oz as background, much as Tom Stoppard used Hamlet as the backdrop for his brilliant Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. | | | This leads to a flashback that chronicles the unlikely friendship between the not-so-good fair-skinned witch Glinda (Chenoweth) and the green-skinned, inherently good Elphaba (Menzel) whose wickedness is the result of shattered idealism. |
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http://www.curtainup.com/wicked.html
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| | Boq |
| | Boq is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West as well as L. | | | In both the Wicked novel and Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Boq and the Tin Man are separate characters. | | | The character also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked which is based on Maguire's novel. |
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http://www.tocatch.info/en/BOQ.htm
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| | Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire - Book |
| | I wish more people would read this novel so they might experience the magic in the story of the Wicked Witch of the West (aka Elphaba). | | | The story involves the politics included in the book The Wizard of Oz, and follows the life of the Wicked Witch and how it is that she becomes so wicked. | | | Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (2) |
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http://www.sffworld.com/book/1520.html
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| | Wicked |
| | In Wicked-the novel first, and now the musical-the Wicked Witch of the West has a name: Elphaba. | | | When I wrote those words, I was consigning the Witch once again into her sorry story, a story I gleaned from all that was left out of the L. Frank Baum novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). | | | Galinda still becomes Glinda, Elphaba becomes the Witch, and they both grow concerned about each other and their world, in ways that slyly derive from the novel but are enchanted into something else again. |
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http://www.lentriola.com/deccapp/wicked.htm
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| | Wicked |
| | In Wicked-the novel first, and now the musical-the Wicked Witch of the West has a name: Elphaba. | | | When I wrote those words, I was consigning the Witch once again into her sorry story, a story I gleaned from all that was left out of the L. Frank Baum novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). | | | Galinda still becomes Glinda, Elphaba becomes the Witch, and they both grow concerned about each other and their world, in ways that slyly derive from the novel but are enchanted into something else again. |
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http://www.lentriola.com/deccapp/wicked.htm
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| | Wicked Tickets - Cheap Wicked Musical Broadway Tickets |
| | Wicked-the Untold Story of the Witches of Oz is a new musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. | | | Wicked the musical is not Wicked the novel. | | | Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. |
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http://www.onlineseats.com/theater/wicked-tickets/index.asp
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| | Review Wicked |
| | While the novel is its source, the musical presents only pieces of it, in a much simplified form, and often diverging wildly from the novel's narrative. | | | Wicked is a fable, and while it certainly augments the original story, it doesn't, in all fairness, change too much about it. | | | She announces that the Wicked Witch of the West is dead, and the Ozians rejoice -- until one of them asks if Glinda and the Wicked Witch were friends. |
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http://www.bluecoupe.com/avant/wicked.html
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| | Playbill News: "Wicked" Author to Chat at Barnes & Noble Sept. 28 |
| | Gregory Maguire, who penned the novel "Wicked," which is the basis for the hit musical of the same name, will make an in-store appearance at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble bookstore Sept. 28. | | | Wicked, which varies slightly from the original Maguire novel, continues to play Broadway's Gershwin Theatre. | | | The novel follows the story of Liir, Elphaba's young son who is left behind after her death. |
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http://www.playbill.com/news/article/95314.html
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| | USATODAY.com - 'Wicked' author Gregory Maguire casts his spell |
| | Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, the bestseller that retells the Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the not-so-wicked witch, recently talked to USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer about his new novel, Son of a Witch: | | | In Wicked he is a lumpy, unfocused child, mostly ignored by the Wicked Witch of the West, who may or may not be his mother. | | | Maguire: That Wicked, after ten years, is selling better every week than it ever did before and is a sign that the musical is having a ripple effect on the reading patterns of those who see the play. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2005-10-12-gregory-maguire-interview_x.htm
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| | 'Wicked' novel spawns sequel www.azstarnet.com ® |
| | "Wicked," the novel, tells the back story of the Wicked Witch, whom Maguire names Elphaba. | | | "Son of a Witch" begins 10 years after "Wicked" ends, and it tells the story of a possible son of Elphaba, Liir, struggling with his identity and purpose, should he be evil's offspring. | | | The novel wasn't an instant hit when it came out 10 years ago, but it soon became a cult favorite. |
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http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/105187
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| | King, Queen, Knave (Vintage International (Paperback)) by VLADIMIR NABOKOV - The Dark Spiral |
| | Nabokov does make an 'appearance' in the novel (a la Hitchcock), along with his wife, as the couple with whom Franz becomes somewhat obsessed at the seaside resort (look for mention of the butterfly net). | | | Nabokov, even in this early novel, has an excellent feel for human beings, what makes them do what they do and just how much they can stand. | | | one adumbrates nabokov's penchant for condemning cruelty by having his characters indulge in it, that very cruelty, with inexcusable zest and relish; while the other gives us a taste of the author's wicked sense of humor. |
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http://www.darkspiral.com/item/0679723404
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
| | In Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire has written a novel that deals with the life of Elphaba, an emerald-green skinned young woman who was born into the family of a preacher and his wife in Munchkinland. | | | In Wicked, we follow the life of Elphaba as we learn what shaped her personality, what it really means to be a witch and how things are not always as we think them to be or even as we want them to be. | | | The story is of the Wicked Witch of the West, telling her tale with vivid details, completely creating a character for her different from how she has ever before been depicted. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060987103
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| | The Haworth Press Online Catalog: Product: 'Wicked Angels' |
| | Wicked Angels is the exquisite English translation of the classic 1955 French literary novel Les Mauvais Anges, banned for thirty years for what was called its 'subversive' subject matter. | | | The novel is a profoundly lyrical ode to adolescent love and sexuality, as well as a bold and elegant rejection of society's values while on the road to self-destruction. | | | Wicked Angels lives on as a passionate and ultimately tragic story of extreme and ill-fated love that transcends conceptions of gender, youth, and class in society. |
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http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/product.asp?sku=5402
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| | Theater News - Peter Filichia's Diary: Wicked Good or Wicked Bad? - |
| | I thought about the two meanings of "wicked" while watching Wicked, the new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel, which was in turn based on L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz and, more than tangentially, the 1939 semi-musical classic film. | | | Entering the Theater: A wicked good experience, for the proscenium arch is covered with a myriad of objects that show the inner workings of the Land of Oz, all topped by a dragon's head in dead-center. | | | And as the Wizard, Joel Grey is wicked successful in showing us the three dimensions of his character -- though he doesn't turn out to be, as the Wizard alleged in the movie, a good man who's a bad wizard. |
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http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4041
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| | Boq |
| | Boq is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West as well as L. | | | The character also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked which is based on Maguire's novel. | | | In Wicked, Boq is a munchkin who attends school at Shiz University with Elphaba and Galinda (who would grow up to become The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch respectively). |
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http://www.1bx.com/en/Boq.htm
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| | Wicked Witch of the West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Author Gregory Maguire's successful 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West takes the familiar Oz story and turns it on its head, with the Wicked Witch as the novel's protagonist. | | | 2005's Son of a Witch is the sequel to Wicked, focusing upon Elphaba's purported son. | | | In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Miss Piggy plays all of the witches of Oz including The Wicked Witch of the West. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Witch_of_the_West
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