众人之狮：女魔纪元第三卷 A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years

基本信息

Series:Wicked Years

Format:Paperback 336 pages

Publisher:Collins

Imprint:William Morrow Paperbacks

ISBN:9780063398382

Published:13 Aug 2024

Weight:284g

Dimensions:203 x 135 x 26 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《纽约时报》畅销书

聚焦胆小狮，邪恶年代系列的第三部，该系列始于《邪恶年华》，这部畅销数百万册的书籍是托尼奖获奖音乐剧的原型，很快将成为由辛西娅·埃里沃和爱莉安娜·格兰德主演的一部重要电影。

在《人中之狮》中，格雷戈里·马奎尔继续充实奥兹世界，这次是通过胆小狮的眼光来看的——在《邪恶年华》中，它被人们记住是一只被埃尔法巴保护的小幼崽。

当奥兹国内战迫在眉睫时，一位名叫雅克尔的古老而易怒的神谕者准备迎接死亡。然而，在她化为尘土之前，胆小狮——一个名叫 Brrr 的神秘人物——前来寻找有关西方邪恶女魔埃尔法巴·斯罗普的信息。作为回报，徘徊在埃尔法巴生活边缘的雅克尔要求她自己给出一些答案。

幼年时被遗弃的 Brrr 早期的记忆只是一片模糊的胶状物。但他从婴儿时期在大吉利金森林中走过的道路并不是黄砖路。为了纠正早年犯下的错误，他跌跌撞撞地穿过一片幽灵沼泽，卷入了一场屠杀巨魔的事件，并爱上了一位猫公主。为了避开压迫会说话的动物的法律，Brrr 巧妙地同意成为好战的奥兹国皇帝的走狗，从而避免了牢狱之灾。

《人中之狮》讲述了对手之间的一场斗智斗勇，他们被两边逼近的军队分散了注意力。狮子知道女魔的儿子 Liir 的下落吗？Yackle 能透露什么关于时间龙之钟的预兆？命运是否总是任意而定的？那些被玷污名号的人能否摆脱懦弱、邪恶、没脑子、犯罪分子的绰号，宣称自己的历史，在被活剥皮之前光荣地生活？

New York Times Bestseller

Focusing on the Cowardly Lion, the third in the Wicked Years series which started with Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award–winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

In A Lion Among Men Gregory Maguire continues to flesh out the world of Oz, seen this time through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion—remembered from Wicked as a tiny cub defended by Elphaba.

While civil war looms in Oz, an ancient and tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before she can return to dust, however, the Cowardly Lion—an enigmatic figure named Brrr—arrives in search of information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wickedof the West. As payment, Yackle who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba’s life, demands some answers of her own.

Abandoned as a cub, Brrr’s earliest memories are only gluey hazes. But his path from infancy in the Great Gillikin Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he tumbles through a swamp, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, and falls in love with a Cat princess. Sidestepping the laws that oppress talking Animals, Brrr cannily avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the warmongering Emperor of Oz.

A Lion Among Men traces a battle of wits between adversaries distracted by the armies approaching on either side of them. What does the Lion know of the whereabouts of the boy, Liir? What can Yackle reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? Is destiny ever arbitrary? Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets—cowardly, wicked, brainless, criminally earnest—to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they’re skinned alive?

作者简介

格雷戈里·马奎尔是《纽约时报》畅销书《邪恶岁月》的作者，该系列包括《邪恶岁月》——这部深受喜爱的经典作品，被改编为托尼奖获奖同名百老汇音乐剧和电影——《女魔之子》、《人中之狮》和《走出奥兹国》。他的系列《另一天》延续了奥兹国的故事，有《马拉库尔的新娘》、《马拉库尔的神谕》，他的其他小说包括《冬日狂野天鹅》、《希登西》、《爱丽丝之后》、《一个丑陋继妹的告白》、《迷失》和《魔镜魔镜》。他的儿童小说包括《水芹菜》、《跳跃的美人》和《鸡蛋和勺子》，后者获得了波士顿环球报号角图书荣誉奖。他现居新英格兰和法国。

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion picture—A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. Some of his novels for youngsters include Cress Watercress, Leaping Beauty, and Egg & Spoon, winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. He lives in New England and France.