Gregory Maguire

Kun L. Frank Baumin klassikkoteoksessa Ihmemaa Oz Dorothy voittaa Ilkeän Noidan, kuullaan tarinasta vasta toinen puoli. Millainen onkaan Dorothyn arkkivihollisen, salaperäisen Noidan tarina? Mistä hän tuli? Miten hänestä tuli niin ilkeä nainen?Gregory Maguiren Wickedin fantasiamaailma murtaa käsityksiä Ihmemaa Ozista. Puhuvat eläimet taistelevat kansalaisoikeuksiensa puolesta, maiskiset kaipaavat keskiluokkaista vakautta ja Peltimies joutuu perheväkivallan uhriksi. Sankarittarena on vihreähipiäinen Elphaba, pisteliään älykäs ja väärinymmärretty tyttö, josta kasvaa kapinallinen Noita. Hänen tarinansa kyseenalaistaa ennakkokäsityksemme hyvästä ja pahasta.Wicked on saavuttanut valtavan suosion maailmanlaajuisesti, se on myynyt miljoonia kappaleita ja sitä kutsutaan jo moderniksi fantasiakirjaklassikoksi. Wickedista on tehty musikaali, jota esitetään pysyvänä tuotantona Broadwayllä, Los Angelesissa ja Lontoossa.Vuonna 2024 ensi-iltaan saapui musikaaliin perustuva musiikkifantasiaelokuva Wicked, jonka toinen osa julkaistaan tänä vuonna.

In this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early-nineteenth-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves himGregory Maguire's novels have been called "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delicious." Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz in Wicked, Wonderland in After Alice and Dickensian London in Lost, Maguire now takes us to the Black Forest of Bavaria and Munich of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A. Hoffman. Hiddensee recreates the backstory of the Nutcracker, reimaging how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how it magically guided an ailing little girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a snowy Christmas Eve. It also brings to life the mysterious godfather Drosselmeier--the ominous, canny, one-eyed toymaker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky's ballet--who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter.But Hiddensee is not just a retelling of a classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German Romanticism a migrating strain of a Hellenic mystery-cult, and ponders a profound question: how a person who is abused by life, short-changed and challenged, can access secrets that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless. Ultimately, Hiddensee, offers a message of hope. If the compromised Godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized on the eve of a winter holiday, has something precious to share.

Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science fiction novels of all time, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, and later winning the National Book Award for her time fantasy The Court of the Stone Children.In addition, Eleanor Cameron played an often vocal role in critical debates about children's literature. She was one of the first authors to take up literary criticism of children's novels and published two influential books of criticism, including The Green and Burning Tree. One of Cameron's most notable acts of criticism came in 1973, when she wrote a scathing critique of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl responded in kind, and the result was a fiery imbroglio within the pages of the Horn Book Magazine. Yet despite her many accomplishments, most of Cameron's books went out of print by the end of her life, and her star faded.This biography aims to reinsert Cameron into the conversation by taking an in-depth look at her tumultuous early life in Ohio and California, her unforgettably forceful personality and criticism, and her graceful, heartfelt novels. The biography includes detailed analysis of the creative process behind each of her published works and how Cameron's feminism, environmentalism, and strong sense of ethics are reflected in and represented by her writings. Drawn from over twenty interviews, thousands of letters, and several unpublished manuscripts in her personal papers, Eleanor Cameron is a tour of the most exciting and creative periods of American children's literature through the experience of one of its valiant purveyors and champions.

GALINDA: A CHARMED CHILDHOOD is the eagerly awaited origin story of Galinda, the pink-clad, effervescent and popular Good Witch. Who was Glinda the Good Witch before she floated down in her bubble to greet Dorothy? Who was Glinda before she became Elphaba Thropp's magnetic and popular roommate at Shiz University? Well, before then, she was Galinda. With a 'ga'. The youngest of four children in a high-born family down on their luck, Galinda is both pampered and ignored. Her natural grace promises to elevate her in the district dance competitions - but these efforts distract her from seeing the growing resentments of local merchants who disapprove of her family and their business. But as her father deftly pivots around the snares and nets laid for him by his rivals, Galinda begins to dance toward a life that might lift her above her proud, if hardscrabble, childhood. Galinda reveals the girl behind the bubbly, shallow cliché - offering fans of Wicked their first glimpse into the true life of a beloved and iconic character.

Experience the magic of Oz as you've never seen it before with this brand-new graphic novel adaptation of Gregory Maguire's masterpiece Wicked, the inspiration for the Broadway show and major motion picture-the second in a two-part series featuring stunning full-colour illustrations by Scott Hampton. Experience the story of Elphaba and Glinda in this second volume of the graphic novel adaptation of Wicked. While the long-running Broadway musical and major motion picture take inspiration from this iconic novel, this is Oz as Gregory Maguire wrote it-a fantastical story with dark edges that explores morality and ambition, love and friendship, and discovering one's inner power. Elphaba was born with emerald-green skin-no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals-those creatures with voices, souls, and minds-are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals-even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.

Kak zhila Elfaba do togo, kak postupit v universitet Shiza? Ej suzhdeno stat Zloj Vedmoj Zapada, i sudba s rozhdenija dajot ej znaki. Samyj ochevidnyj - ejo zeljonaja kozha. Menee zametnyj, no bolee vazhnyj - ejo um, khitrost... i gotovnost perestupit cherez normy morali, esli ej nuzhno vyzhit ili dobitsja chego-to.Ejo detstvo prokhodit s legkomyslennoj materju i blagochestivym ottsom. Ejo sestra - invalid, ejo brat - khuligan, chi shalosti postepenno prevraschajutsja v prestuplenija. Elfaba vpervye stalkivaetsja s ugneteniem Zhivotnykh i zavodit znakomstvo s prizrachnoj obezjankoj. Ona vpervye probuzhdaet svoju silu i pytaetsja obresti druga, kotoryj mog by spasti ejo ot pronzitelnogo odinochestva. No vsjo, chto ona delaet, vedjot ejo v Universitet goroda Shiz, gde ejo zhdjot vstrecha s luchezarnym sozdaniem po imeni Galinda...

Kak zhila Elfaba do togo, kak postupit v universitet Shiza? Ej suzhdeno stat Zloj Vedmoj Zapada, i sudba s rozhdenija dajot ej znaki. Samyj ochevidnyj - ejo zeljonaja kozha. Menee zametnyj, no bolee vazhnyj - ejo um, khitrost... i gotovnost perestupit cherez normy morali, esli ej nuzhno vyzhit ili dobitsja chego-to.Ejo detstvo prokhodit s legkomyslennoj materju i blagochestivym ottsom. Ejo sestra - invalid, ejo brat - khuligan, chi shalosti postepenno prevraschajutsja v prestuplenija. Elfaba vpervye stalkivaetsja s ugneteniem Zhivotnykh i zavodit znakomstvo s prizrachnoj obezjankoj. Ona vpervye probuzhdaet svoju silu i pytaetsja obresti druga, kotoryj mog by spasti ejo ot pronzitelnogo odinochestva. No vsjo, chto ona delaet, vedjot ejo v Universitet goroda Shiz, gde ejo zhdjot vstrecha s luchezarnym sozdaniem po imeni Galinda...

Once upon a time in the land of Oz, a green little girl was born... ELPHIE: A WICKED CHILDHOOD is the captivating coming-of-age story of the most iconic witch ever to grace our screens and bookshelves. Young Elphaba is destined to be a witch, she bears the markings from childhood. But what happened before her powers took hold? Elphie is a girl like any other and no other. Nothing like her parents - one beautiful, the other pious - nor her saintly sister, Nessarose. Her skin is green, her mind is cunning. One day she will command this strange and wonderful world. For now, her journey is just beginning. The road ahead is full of lessons and heartbreak, the first bruising attempts at friendship - and tantalising whispers of magic. It will lead Elphie to the doors of Shiz University, and to the girl who will change her life forever...

What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West--setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical. Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl. Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be--until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda. Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood--most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire.

Experience the magic of Oz as you’ve never seen it before with this brand-new graphic novel adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s masterpiece Wicked, the inspiration for the Broadway show and major motion picture—the first in a two-part series featuring gorgeous full-colour illustrations by Scott Hampton.Like Dorothy when she crash-landed all those years ago, prepare to be swept into a new and colorful world in this first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Wicked. While the long-running Broadway musical and major motion picture take inspiration from this iconic novel, this is Oz as Gregory Maguire wrote it—a fantastical story with dark edges that explores morality and ambition, love and friendship, and discovering one’s inner power.Elphaba was born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.

Fall under the WICKED spell with this beautiful new 30th anniversary hardback The global bestseller that inspired the hit musical phenomenon. Now a major movie and record-breaking box office sensation. In this classic tale of good and evil, what if we weren't told the whole story? Long before Dorothy follows the yellow brick road and triumphs over the Wicked Witch of the West, a little girl with emerald-green skin is born in the land of Oz. Elphaba grows up to be smart and prickly, a lonely outsider with an extraordinary talent for magic. Arriving at university, she dares to believe she might finally fit in. But Oz isn't the haven she'd dreamed of. Some of its citizens are in grave danger, and Elphaba is determined to protect them from the Wizard's power. And when the world declares her a wicked witch, Elphaba takes matters into her own hands... **This is the original novel by Gregory Maguire, first published in 1995. It is a reimagined prequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and contains adult content.** *Special limited 'Glinda' design *Pink and white soft-touch hardback casing *Full-colour illustrated endpapers *Head and tail bands *Ribbon marker

Kazhdyj znaet o devochke, kotoraja pobedila zluju vedmu po doroge v Izumrudnyj gorod. No chto naschjot samoj vedmy? Otkuda ona vzjalas i chto tolknulo ejo na storonu tmy? Ved kogda-to byla prosto zelenokozhaja malyshka po imeni Elfaba, kotoraja vzroslela, vidja sovsem ne skazochnuju iznanku skazochnoj strany. Nespravedlivost, zhestokost i predrassudki - vot chto porodilo Zluju Vedmu Zapada: umnuju, koljuchuju i neponjatuju...

Zlaja: Skazka o vedme Zapada (Zlaja #1) Kazhdyj znaet o devochke, kotoraja pobedila zluju vedmu po doroge v Izumrudnyj gorod. No chto naschjot samoj vedmy? Otkuda ona vzjalas i chto tolknulo ejo na storonu tmy? Ved kogda-to byla prosto zelenokozhaja malyshka po imeni Elfaba, kotoraja vzroslela, vidja sovsem ne skazochnuju iznanku skazochnoj strany. Nespravedlivost, zhestokost i predrassudki - vot chto porodilo Zluju Vedmu Zapada: umnuju, koljuchuju i neponjatuju... V Strane Oz v seme svjaschennika rozhdaetsja devochka Elfaba s zelenoj kozhej, derzkim nravom i bojaznju vody. Nesmotrja na ljudskuju molvu, ona vyrastaet tseleustremlennoj devushkoj i postupaet v universitet, gde ee sosedkoj po komnate stanovitsja ambitsioznaja Galinda. Vo vremja ucheby oni ponimajut, chto Strana Oz i ee ustoi daleki ot sovershenstva. Elfaba i Galinda uvereny, chto im pod silu spravitsja s nespravedlivostju mira, no v rezultate okazyvajutsja vtjanutymi v chuzhuju politicheskuju igru.

A beautifully illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair, from the author of the novel Wicked, which inspired the hit musical.Gregory Maguire turns his trademark wit and wisdom to an animal adventure about growing up, moving on and finding community. When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It’s a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what’s left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse superintendent, a rowdy family of squirrels and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone’s business. Can a dead tree full of annoying neighbours, and no Papa, ever be home?In the timeless spirit of E. B. White and The Wind in the Willows – yet thoroughly of its time – this read-aloud and read-alone gem for animal lovers of all ages features an unforgettable cast that leaps off the page in black-and-white illustrations by David Litchfield.