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Description edit
Hailed as "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delicious," Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years series-a sophisticated fantasy cycle inspired by the classic children's novel "The Wizard of Oz"-became national bestsellers and the basis for a hit Tony-winning... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Rain: Liir & Candle's daughter, Elphaba's granddaughter. Very much a loner, like her father and grandmother, Rain is portrayed as an asocial young girl. Slowly she grows up into a more social being, but still a loner in many ways.
- Dorothy Gale: Young woman originally from Kansas
- Brrr (Cowardly Lion): An Animal able to speak and reason.
- Mr. Boss: An ornery dwarf who maintains the Clock of the Time Dragon
- Little Daffy: A female Munchkin and former maunt.
- Lady Glinda: Add a description of this character.
- Cherrystone
- Ilianora
- Mombey
- Miss Murth
- Iskinaary
- Mister Mikko
- Muhlama
- Temper Bailey
- Liir
- Clock
- Dosey
- Puggles
- Dame Fegg
- Elphaba Thropp
- Madame Chortlebush
- Wren
- Lurline
- Restwater
- Avaric
- Nessarose Thropp
- Scarly
- Nastoya
- Murthy
- Chistery
- Manning
- Proctor Gadfry
- Clapp
- Madame Shenshen
- Chalotin
- Kynot
- Pastorius
- Chuffrey
Quotes edit
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“...it's always somewhat surprising to wake up and be alive again.”
Liir
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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Some lives are like steps and stairs, every period an achievement built on a previous success.
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What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little.
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The tedious never die; that’s what makes them tedious.
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As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it.
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“My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That Earth affords or grows by kind. Sir Edward Dyer.”
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that’s almost the same thing.”
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We don’t get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our license to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there’s no place remotely like home.
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“Mid pleasure and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home,” he read. “John Howard Payne.”
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Maybe that’s what growing up means, in the end—you go out far enough in the direction of—somewhere—and you realize that you’ve neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything.”
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Setting & Locations edit
- Oz
- Munchkinland
- Emerald City
- Shiz
- St. Prowd
- Kansas
- Yellow Brick Road
- Kiamo Ko
- Scrow
- Great Kells
- Southstairs
- Haugaard
- Colwen Grounds
- Candle
- San Francisco
- Nether How
- Gillikin River
- Quadling Country
- Yunamata
- Munchkin River
- Bright Lettins
- Haventhur
- Aestheticum
- Great Gillikin Forest
- Vinkus River
- Mennipin Square
- Preenella
- Kumbricia
- Upper Fanarra
First Sentence edit
It would take Dorothy Gale and her relatives three days to reach the mountains by train from Kansas, the conductor told them.
Table of Contents edit
The Wicked Years: A Note to Readers
Charting the Wicked Years Chronologically
Maps: The City of Shiz, Gillikin; The Emerald City
Significant Families of Oz
A Brief Outline of the Throne Ministers of Oz
Prologue: Out of Oz
I. To Call Winter upon Water
II. The Patchwork Conscience of Oz
III. The Chanel of the Ladyfish
IV. The Judgement of Dorothy
V. At St. Proud's
VI. God's Great-Niece
VII. To Call the Lost Forward
VIII. Somewhere
Acknowledgments
Coda
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 4 in The Wicked Years. (standard series)
Preceded by A Lion Among Men.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gregory Maguire (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: November 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-06-054894-0
Page Count: 592
Publisher: William Morrow
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: November 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-06-054894-0
Page Count: 592
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3563.A3535 O98 2011
- Dewey: 813.54
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