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Time Quintet #1-4

The Time Quartet

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Content: A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; A Swiftly Tilting Planet; and Many Water. These classic novels are now bound in one book.

646 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1,1989
Series
Time Quintet

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Format
646 pages, Hardcover
Published
January 1, 2003 by Science Fiction Book Club
ISBN
9780739439708
ASIN
0739439707
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • Meg Murry

    Meg Murry

    Margaret "Meg" Murry — Eldest daughter of Alexander and Katherine. Somewhat awkward and plain as an adolescent, she acquires social graces and beauty during the course of her maturation covered in A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilti...

  • Charles Wallace Murry

    Charles Wallace Murry

    The youngest of the Murry clan. Charles Wallace is described as "something new". He is incredibly intelligent, sensitive, telepathic, an evolutionary next step similar to the Indigo child concept. Charles Wallace is a protagonist in A Wrinkle in Time and ...

  • Calvin O'Keefe

    Calvin Okeefe

    Marine biologist, husband of Meg, father of a large brood. As a boy, Calvin was a "sport" among what the uncharitable might call white trash, excelling academically, socially, and athletically from an early age, but feeling disconnected from his peers. He...

  • Dr. Kate Murry

    Dr. Kate Murry

    Microbiologist and Nobel laureate, wife of Alex Murry and mother of four. Her laboratory is inside her rural home, and she sometimes cooks over a bunsen burner. Considered "a beauty" in contrast to Megs "outrageous plainness", Kate is loving and nur...

  • Mrs. O'Keefe

    Mrs. Okeefe

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  • Mad Dog Branzillo

    Mad Dog Branzillo

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Saekheart
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April 17,2025
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Madeleine L'Engle is one of my all time favorite authors. Both her characters and storylines are thoughtful, well written and intriguing. She writes books that I can read again and again. These particular novels are some of my absolute favorites and I have enjoyed them both as a written books and as an audios.
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N2ptune
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April 17,2025
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I have to admit I've only read the first two. Although these books are apparently meant for grade school level, I find it hard to believe kids that young would ever be able to understand L'Engle's fourth dimension POV. I would like to read the last two in the series, but I think I may have given these books away...

Regardless, these books would make AMAZING movies if done in a non-cheesy manner.
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Cloughy04
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April 17,2025
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I can't tell you what these books have meant to me. And they're still so important. I love L'Engle's subject matter, even though her characters get stiff and erudite. Everyone talks like a Harvard humanities professor, whether 6y.o. or 60. Even so, she is one of my favorite authors.
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BenjaminRogers
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April 17,2025
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These have always been favorites. Wonderful character development and description. I still have such clear pictures of many of the scenes in my head. If I reread them now, I'm sure I'd get some deeper meaning out of them (I hope) but in middle school I was much simpler and just liked it for the surface story. Good enough for me!
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cursebreaker
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April 17,2025
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These happened the summer of my 6th grade year. My brother signed me up for a library reading contest - I had to read 100 books! It was worth it, and these were the highlight. My favorite ride of all literature.
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Zukan123
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April 17,2025
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I adored a Wrinkle in time. It's one of my all time favorites, but I feel like the series slowly deteriorated from there. I liked A Wind in the Door, but I didn't love it quite as much. Quite frankly, I fell asleep reading a Swiftly Tilting Planet. I only made it halfway through the last book. I missed the interactions between Meg and Calvin in the last 2 books. They were my favorites. And it was weird to jump from being in school to being married and pregnant. It wasn't as fun to read. My friend didn't even want to read the last 2 books when I told her that Meg was married and pregnant in A Swiftly Tilting Planet. It was too much of a jump for me. If there was a book in between the 2nd and 3rd filling in the gaps, I think I would've been happier. Plus the 3rd book was just plain boring and hard to follow, especially if you're 12. I had to force myself to finish it.
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Santoryu_XBurner
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April 17,2025
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Alas, I did not love the other novels as much as the first. And the deleted sections of A Wrinkle in Time would not have improved it, I fear. Of the additional materials, I liked best the essay on fantasy and science fiction (her remarks on receiving the Newbery Award).
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Hanselhoff27
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April 17,2025
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At least two of these ("A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Swiftly Tilting Planet") are BOTH on my 10-TEN, ALL-TIME FAVORITES list, and I consider "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" one of those rare volumes that touched my soul and left me a better person for having read it.

I do have to admit, however, that we re-read the trilogy with our children, discovered "Many Waters," and did not enjoy it as we had the first three. It is one of only a handful of books I have never finished reading.
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