From the Epic Inpsiration of the Major Motion Picture―Now Streaming

The #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the smash hit musical and two major motion pictures. Look for part one of WICKED the movie, now streaming, and the stunning conclusion WICKED: FOR GOOD, coming November 21, 2025.

With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film. In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. 

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is 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. 

Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch. 

Với hàng triệu bản in trên toàn thế giới, Wicked của Gregory Maguire không chỉ được coi là lời bình luận về thời đại của chúng ta mà còn là một cuốn tiểu thuyết đáng để đọc lại trong nhiều năm tới. Wicked tận hưởng những phát minh đầy cảm hứng của cuốn tiểu thuyết The Wonderful Wizard of Oz của L. Frank Baum năm 1900, trong khi chơi trò ảo thuật với những ký ức chung của chúng ta về bộ phim MGM năm 1939. Trong cuốn tiểu thuyết nhịp độ nhanh, thực tế tuyệt vời và cực kỳ giải trí này, Maguire đã lấp đầy thế giới Oz phần lớn chưa được biết đến bằng sức mạnh của trí tưởng tượng của chính mình.