The Kairos novels / Madeleine L'Engle ; Leonard S. Marcus, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

L'Engle, Madeleine, author.

Contributor:

Marcus, Leonard S., 1950- editor.

Series:

L'Engle, Madeleine. Kairos novels ; v. 1.

L'Engle, Madeleine. Kairos novels ; v. 2.

The Library of America ; 309-310

The Kairos novels ; volume 1-2

Library of America ; 309-310.

Standardized Title:

Novels. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American.

Children's stories, American.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (854; 1045 pages) ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

The Wrinkle in Time Quartet

The Polly O'Keefe Quartet

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Library of America, [2018]

Summary:

The first volume gathers Wrinkle 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 madman threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling 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 -- Provided by publisher.

The second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. 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 steamer bound for 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.

Contents:

Volume 1. 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 The expanding universe, Newbery Award acceptance speech ; Unpublished essay on time ; Childlike wonder and the truths of science fiction ; Dare to be creative!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. Volume 2. 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.

Notes:

Library of America presents Madeleine L'Engle's iconic classic A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written, in a newly-prepared authoritative text and, as a special feature, it includes never-before-seen deleted passages from the novel in an appendix.

A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: here in this set, together for the first time in a deluxe Library of America edition, are the thrilling adventures of Meg Murray's daughter Polly.

v.1 The Wrinkle in Time Quartet, v.2 The Polly O'Keefe Quartet

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. Wrinkle in time.

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. Wind in the door.

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. Swiftly tilting planet.

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. Many waters.

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. Arm of the starfish.

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. Dragons in the water.

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. House like a lotus.

Container of: L'Engle, Madeleine. Acceptable time.

ISBN:

9781598535785

1598535781

9781598535792

159853579X

9781598535778

1598535773

OCLC:

1062362241