The Wrinkle in Time Quintet (Slipcased Collector's Edition)
After Meg and Charles Wallace Murry and Calvin O'Keefe defeated evil and saved the universe in the Newbery Medal-winning classic A Wrinkle in Time, their adventures didn't end. The other books in the Wrinkle in Time Quintet take readers to the deep past and distant future, to the far reaches of...
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After Meg and Charles Wallace Murry and Calvin O'Keefe defeated evil and saved the universe in the Newbery Medal-winning classic A Wrinkle in Time, their adventures didn't end. The other books in the Wrinkle in Time Quintet take readers to the deep past and distant future, to the far reaches of the galaxy and the inner workings of the human heart. A beautiful hardcover gift edition, complete with blue gilded pages and a slipcase, brings together the stories of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time for true fans of this iconic series.
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ISBN:
9780374375966 (0374375968)
ASIN: 374375968
Publish date: October 30th 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
This is one of those books I wished would never end! I loved it as a child and I love it still.
This book is packed to the gills with what some of L'Engle's Goodreads fans are calling scorflam, which is short for "that stuff L'Engle does that would be grounds for hurling the book across the room in the hands of any other author but since it's L'Engle, one rises above the impulse." I got close,...
I just had a flashback to my sophomore year in high school, when my attempt to draw Proginoskes on the chalkboard was interpreted rather poorly by the Driver's Ed teacher as something gynecological in nature. Small wonder I'd forgotten that.I don't think that one can judge this particular book on an...
I don't know that I understood how completely L'Engle's Christianity infused this book before. Or perhaps it's more her theism, rather than any particular religion. It's indelibly woven into the plot, even. It's fascinating to me, when I revisit childhood favorites, how totally oblivious I was to re...