The bestselling classic and basis for the Tony Award-winning musical and upcoming movie Wicked
here paired for the first time with the other three books in the Wicked Years series ( Son of a
Witch A Lion Among Men and Out of Oz ) in a stunning box set featuring a gorgeous design and
new covers for all four trade paperbacks. Gregory Maguire's groundbreaking New York Times
bestselling series redefined the land of Oz its inhabitants its Wizard and the Emerald City
viewing the world created by L. Frank Baum through a darker and greener lens. Wicked. The first
novel in the series basis of the smash hit musical explores 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. And then there
is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked
Witch of the West--a smart prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our
preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil. Son of a Witch. A decade after the
Witch has melted away her son a young man called Liir is discovered bruised comatose and
left for dead in a gully. Shattered in spirit as well as in form he is tended by the
mysterious Candle a foundling in her own right until failed campaigns of his childhood bear
late unexpected fruit. A Lion Among Men. While civil war looms in Oz the Cowardly Lion an
enigmatic figure named Brrr arrives in search of information about Elphaba Thropp the Wicked
Witch of the West. Out of Oz. The marvelous land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The
Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland Glinda is under house arrest and the
Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who's knocking at the door. It's none other
than Dorothy. Yes that Dorothy. Amid all this chaos Elphaba's granddaughter the tiny green
baby born at the close of Son of a Witch has come of age. Now Rain will take up her broom in
an Oz wracked by war.
