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Madeleine L’Engle: The Kairos Novels (boxed set)

Edited by Leonard S. Marcus

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A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: rediscover an American classic with all seven of its sequels in this deluxe, two-volume collector’s edition boxed set.

Here, for the first time, in a newly-prepared authoritative text, Madeleine L’Engle’s iconic classic A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written, is presented with all seven of its sequels—what L’Engle called the Kairos (or “cosmic time”) novels—in a deluxe two-volume boxed set, complete with never-before-seen deleted passages from A Wrinkle in Time. L’Engle’s unforgettable heroine, Meg Murry, must confront her fears and self-doubt to rescue her scientist father, who has been experimenting with mysterious tesseracts capable of bending the very fabric of space and time. Helping her are her little brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O’Keefe, and a trio of strange supernatural visitors called Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which. But A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning of the adventure.

In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from beings called Echthroi, who are trying to erase existence. In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, when a madman threatens nuclear war, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling into the past. And in Many Waters, Meg’s twin brothers are accidentally transported back to the time of Noah’s ark.

The final four books center on Calvin and Meg’s daughter Polly. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin’s research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a ship sailing to Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of love in A House Like a Lotus. And in An Acceptable Time, Polly is lured through a tesseract by a friend who may be hoping to sacrifice Polly in order to save himself.

Leonard S. Marcus, editor, is one of the world’s leading writers on children’s books and the people who create them. He is the author of Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L’Engle in Many Voices, among other books. He reviews children’s books for The New York Times, teaches at New York University and the School of Visual Arts, and lectures around the world.

Each Library of America series volume is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Madeleine L’Engle: The Wrinkle in Time Quartet is kept in print with a gift from Linda Adams, Ken Larson, and Leila Kahikina to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in memory of Donielle Therese Kahikina.
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November 29, 2018

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Table of Contents

The Wrinkle in Time Quartet
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters

Appendix
The Expanding Universe, Newbery Award Acceptance Speech
Unpublished Essay on Time
Childlike Wonder and the Truths of Science Fiction
Dare to Be Creative! Lecture at the Library of Congress
Four Deleted Sections from A Wrinkle in Time
Commencement Address at Ashley Hall, Charleston, South Carolina, 1982

The Polly O’Keefe Quartet
The Arm of the Starfish
Dragons in the Waters
A House Like a Lotus
An Acceptable Time

Appendix
How Long Is a Book?
Regina Medal Acceptance Speech
Shake the Universe
Smith College 50th Reunion Speech

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