A lion among men
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061716171 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 0061716170 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 9780061716195 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 0061716197 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Pymble, NSW ; New York : HarperCollins e-books, c2008.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Deposition of an oracle -- The nursery in the forest -- No good old days to speak of -- A coward for his country -- A question of influence -- The past approaches -- The shroud of the cowardly lion. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : PerfectBound, 2008. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 3337 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 928 KB). |
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- Baker & Taylor
An entertaining third volume in the The Wicked Years series, followingWicked and Son of a Witch , focuses on the adventures and exploits of the Cowardly Lion. Reprint . 250,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
An entertaining third volume in the The Wicked Years series, followingWicked and Son of a Witch , focuses on the adventures and exploits of the Cowardly Lion. 300,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
An entertaining third volume in the The Wicked Years series, followingWicked and Son of a Witch , focuses on the adventures and exploits of the Cowardly Lion. Reissue. A best-selling book. 30,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
As civil war looms in Oz, Brrr, once a lion cub rescued by Elphaba, now a spy for the emperor, attempts to get vital information out of the dying oracle Yackle, only to learn important truths about his own mysterious past. - HARPERCOLL
"Hardly more than a kitten . . . I had thought to call it Prrr, but it shivers more often than it purrs, so I call it Brrr instead."
âFrom WickedSince Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lionâthe once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked.
While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrrâthe Cowardly Lionâarrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle, who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's life, demands some answers of her own.
Brrr surrenders his story to the ailing maunt: Abandoned as a cub, his earliest memories are gluey hazes, and his path from infancy in the Great Gillikin Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he trudges through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, and falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess. In the wake of laws that oppress talking Animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz.
A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. What does the Lion know of the whereabouts of the Witch's boy, Liir? What can Yackle reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? And what of the Grimmerie, the magic book that vanished as quickly as Elphaba? Is destiny ever arbitrary? Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquetsâcowardly, wicked, brainless, criminally earnestâto claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?
At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.
- HARPERCOLL
Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. InA Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguireâs acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a world gone mad with war feverâof Munchkins, Wizards, and Wicked Witchesâand especially of a gentle soul and determined survivor who is truly A Lion Among Men.
- HARPERCOLL
Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguireâs acclaimed,New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a world gone mad with war feverâof Munchkins, Wizards, and Wicked Witchesâand especially of a gentle soul and determined survivor who is truly A Lion Among Men.