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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.MAGUIRE, Gregory. Wicked. The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. A Novel. Illustrations by Douglas Smith. NY: ReganBooks [1995]. 8vo, [viii] 406pp. Color pictorial boards. Pictorial map endpapers; illustrated title page and 5 full-page illustrations. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). Signed by the author, Gregory Maguire!
First edition. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel inspired both the blockbuster musical of the same name one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history as well as the Oscar-winning blockbuster film. Popular, indeed. But while the novels theatrical adaptations hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, MaguiresWickedis a groundbreaking work of inspiration, pathos, and inspired a whole generation of modern re-imaginings of literary classics.
