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Elphie (Standard Edition): The Wicked Childhood of Elphaba, from the Series That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Children's Books on Marriage & Divorce Watching her son absorb theWhat happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the Westsetting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical. Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult