A special 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the multi-million-copy-bestselling novel and basis of the Tony Award'winning musical. This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical; Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz; its inhabitants; its Wizard; and the Emerald City; through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive; Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who; as Maguire tells us; wasn't nearly as Wicked as we imagined.