Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Movie Tie-In 2 Ed.)

【魔法壞女巫電影原著】

《紐約時報》第 1 名暢銷書
同時是百老匯超級音樂劇與兩部大型電影的原著小說。
第一部電影《WICKED》現已上架串流平台，最終章《WICKED: FOR GOOD》即將於 2025 年 11 月 21 日 上映。

風靡全球、銷量破百萬的 Gregory Maguire 經典之作《Wicked》，不僅是對當代社會的寓言，也是值得反覆閱讀多年的文學作品。小說大膽汲取 L. Frank Baum 1900 年著作《綠野仙蹤》的靈感，並巧妙顛覆我們對 1939 年 MGM 經典電影的集體記憶。節奏明快、奇幻真實、娛樂性極高，作者以驚人的想像力重新填滿奧茲（Oz）那段神祕而未被描寫的歷史。

在桃樂絲與托托墜入奧茲之前，另一個女孩已在那裡留下足跡。她就是 Elphaba——出生時便擁有翠綠皮膚。在這片貧瘠而刻薄的土地上，迷信與魔法都不足以解釋頻仍的洪水與饑荒，而她的外貌讓她承受更艱重的負擔。
然而 Elphaba 聰明過人，進入 Shiz 大學後，更成了奧茲最具潛力的青年菁英之一。

但她所見的奧茲遠非烏托邦。
巫師的祕密警察無所不在；
有思想、有聲音的 Animals（智慧動物） 受到威脅，被迫面臨流放。

綠皮膚、野性又被誤解的 Elphaba，決心為 Animals 發聲——即便這代表她要對抗神祕莫測的巫師，也可能犧牲僅有的一段愛情。隨著她在罪惡與哀傷中愈加成熟，她甚至能感謝這個世界稱她為 “女巫”。她甚至能感謝那位來自堪薩斯的小女孩。

出版後，《Wicked》被視為打破框架的經典之作，並催生出同名音樂劇——Broadway 史上演出最久、最受歡迎的音樂劇之一。雖然其風格源於魔幻寫實、神話創作與十九世紀的道德史詩，但 Gregory Maguire 筆下的《Wicked》依然獨樹一幟，如同它那綠皮膚的女巫。


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.

"Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something entirely new. It’s an astonishing achievement." –Phillip Pullman

"Gregory gets the complications and uniqueness of women very well."-- Kristen Chenoweth

"It's a staggering feat of wordcraft, made no less so by the fact that its boundaries were set decades ago by somebody else. Maguire's larger triumph here is twofold: First, in Elphaba, he has created (re-created? renovated?) one of the great heroines in fantasy literature: a fiery, passionate, unforgettable and ultimately tragic figure. Second, Wicked is the best fantasy novel of ideas I've read since Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast or Frank Herbert's Dune. Would that all books with this much innate consumer appeal were also this good. And vice versa." –Los Angeles Times