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Madeleine L’Engle: The Wrinkle in Time Quartet

A Wrinkle in Time | A Wind in the Door | A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Many Waters More

Edited by Leonard S. Marcus

A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: rediscover an American classic and its three sequels in this deluxe Library of America edition

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Overview

Video Madeleine L’Engle on A Wrinkle in Time: “It’s for people”
November 29, 2018

Video Watch: Leonard S. Marcus on his first meeting with a “totally engaged” Madeleine L’Engle
November 16, 2018

Interviews Leonard S. Marcus on Madeleine L’Engle, the “fearless experimenter” of children’s literature
October 19, 2018

Save $20 when you buy both L’Engle quartets in a deluxe boxed set.

This Library of America volume presents Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Award–winning classic A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written, in a newly-prepared authoritative text with, as a special feature, an appendix including four never-before-seen deleted passages. The book’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 fabric of space and time. Helping her are her little brother Charles Wallace, her friend Calvin O’Keefe, and a trio of strange supernatural visitors called Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which, in an epic battle between good and evil.

But A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning of the adventure. Seven other novels followed, which L’Engle collectively called the “Kairos Novels,” named for the ancient Greek word for cosmically critical moments of time. Now, all eight Kairos Novels are collected in a deluxe two-volume edition for the first time.

This first volume gathers A Wrinkle in Time with three books that chronicle the continuing adventures of Meg and her siblings. In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi, evil beings who are trying to unname existence. When a mad dictator threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by journeying into the past. And in Many Waters, Sandy and Dennys, Meg’s twin brothers, are accidentally transported back to the time of Noah’s ark.

Rounding out the volume is a selection of hard-to-find essays in which L’Engle reflects on the art of writing books for young people.

Leonard S. Marcus 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.

This Library of America series edition 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.
News & Views

Video Madeleine L’Engle on A Wrinkle in Time: “It’s for people”
November 29, 2018

Video Watch: Leonard S. Marcus on his first meeting with a “totally engaged” Madeleine L’Engle
November 16, 2018

Interviews Leonard S. Marcus on Madeleine L’Engle, the “fearless experimenter” of children’s literature
October 19, 2018

News Acquiring literary estate, Smith College celebrates Madeleine L’Engle in her centenary year
August 22, 2018

Interviews New biography of Madeleine L’Engle by her granddaughters is a “journey of becoming”
August 21, 2018
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

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