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Time Quintet #1-4

Time Quartet

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With over 10 million copies in print, Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Medal-winning classic, A Wrinkle in Time , along with its bestselling companions, A Wind in the Door , A Swiftly Tilting Planet , and Many Waters , has enthralled and inspired readers of all ages. This newly designed boxed set features the stunning art of Peter Sís.

750 pages, Paperback

First published August 1,1989
Series
Time Quintet

This edition

Format
750 pages, Paperback
Published
September 11, 2001 by Yearling
ISBN
9780440360377
ASIN
0440360374
Language
English
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  • 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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Tatsumaki
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April 26,2025
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Somehow I got chose the wrong edition. I don't think that I have actually read any past A Wrinkle in Time. I didn't love that one so I didn't bother reading the others. A childhood classic I know but not one that I read as a child and not one I loved as an adult.
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simonair
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April 26,2025
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these books changed my life! and the way i view the world, time, space, other dimensions.....existence, etc.

I LOVE THEM!
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ioaus09
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April 26,2025
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I reread these periodically. I loved them passionately when I was small, and I still do.
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Roonyddevil
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April 26,2025
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A Wrinkle in Time - 3 stars
A Wind in the Door - 3 stars
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - 2 stars
Many Waters - 1 star

Wow, apparently, I ignored a lot of ridiculousness in this series growing up. Took forever to go back through it
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dro73
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April 26,2025
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I do not even remember the first time I read A Wrinkle in Time, but years after that first reading, I found a copy in a used bookstore and fell in love all over again. Today I own the box set as well as a few other books by L'Engle and recommend them to people at every opportunity. I was very sad when L'Engle died, for the world lost a literary genius with incredible talent and vision. Don't let the placement of these books in the children's section fool you...children and adults alike can benefit from reading the entire quartet.
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Fistula
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April 26,2025
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Going back and re-reading these four novels for the first time since I read them to my children when they were young was an exercise of pure joy. In the intervening years I had forgotten what a beautiful prose writer L'Engle was. Appropriate for the subject matter, the language she employs is indeed touched with the music of the spheres and reading her descriptions of these cosmic adventures is nothing short of magical for the reader and what grand adventures they are.
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xMiki-chan
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April 26,2025
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I really enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time when I was a kid. On rereading, I discovered that I had definitely forgotten the way Christian symbols and metaphors kind of beat you over the head in this book. It and A Wind in the Door (which, like the other three books in this omnibus, I had never read before), could definitely benefit from some subtlety. Both books are fun, but also frustrating.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet really made up for this, though. The symbolism and overarching themes are balanced by an awesome story. I love the way the time travel elements are used, and the common threads among the generations Charles Wallace visits and their ties to mythology are handled really well. I also felt like the message of " 'gifted' people are a completely separate species from the rest of humanity and will never be accepted by 'normal' people" was tempered in this story.

When I started reading Many Waters, I had a real "what the hell" reaction when I realized what the primary story was going to be about. But I really enjoyed it. The twins are fun characters and more accessible than Meg and Charles Wallace ever are, to me at least. Her treatments of the seraphim and the nephilim really appealed to me, and I thought she dealt well with issues of puberty and sexuality here.

Overall, I really enjoyed the second two books and I really liked seeing the development of writing style and themes over the course of many books and much time.
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k1000o2te
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April 26,2025
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Timeless

I have read this quartet more times than I can remember. It is indeed timeless in the issues it addresses. The beauty of L’Engle’s writing pulls at my heart & makes me one with her story. It gives me hope as we enter 2024 with all the chaos & violence surrounding us.
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