Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy

Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet & A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Included in this 3-Book Box Set:

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle introduced the world to A Wrinkle in Time and the wonderful and unforgettable characters Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe. Now their first three adventures are together in one volume. In the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time, the children learn that Mr. Murry has been captured by the Dark Thing, and they must time travel to Camazotz to save him.

A Wind in the Door

In A Wind in the Door, Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins (their grade school principal) must travel inside C.W. and battle to save Charles’s life—as well as the balance of the universe.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Meg’s brother Charles Wallace has twenty-four hours to stop the tragedy of nuclear war from occurring. Read the iconic novels that continue to inspire millions of fans around the world.

Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy: 3-Book Box Set | Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books / Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1986 | ISBN-10: 0-440-95207 | ISBN-13: 978-0440952077 | Author: Madeleine L'Engle

• A Wind in the Door | ISBN: 0-440-98761-1 | Pages: 204 | Binding: Paperback | RL: 5.3
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet | ISBN: 0-440-90158-8 | Pages: 256 | Binding: Paperback | RL: 6.4
• A Wrinkle in Time: Winner of the Newbery Award | ISBN: 0-440-99805-0 | Pages: 190 | Binding: Paperback | RL: 5.8

The Three Novels of the The Time Trilogy by Newbery Award Winning Author Madeleine L'Engle—describe in taut and suspenseful detail a cosmic war between good and evil

A Wrinkle in Time: Newbery Award Winner

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way.

Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book.

Praise

"It has the general appearance of being science fiction, but it is not... There is mystery, mysticism, a feeling of indefinable, brooding horror The pervading theme is love... One feels that this book quests desperately for something it never touches. It is original, different, exciting."
—Saturday Review

"Fascinating . It makes unusual demands on the imagination and consequently gives great rewards."
—Horn Book

"Characterization is excellent: the enormity of the setting is handled with sensitivity, and suspense is well sustained... Provocative reading for discerning teenagers."
—Library Journal

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

In this companion volume to A Wrinkle in Time: Newbery Award Winner and A Wind in the Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wal-lace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg—grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything" — goes with him in spirit.

But in overcoming the challenges, Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and will, as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all.

The American Book Award Winner 1980

Praise

"Theme is L'Engle's greatest forte and once again she proves this with a compelling plot, rich in style, that vibrates with provocative thoughts on universal love, individual caring, and the need for joy in living."
—(starred review) Booklist

"L'Engle's gifts are at their most impressive here."
—Publishers Weekly

"... a delightful 'page-turner' written with rare perception."
—The Boston Globe

A Wind in the Door

A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright. so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill (mitochondritis—the destruction of farandolae, minute creatures of the mitochondria in the blood). Determined to help Charles Wallace in school. Meg pays a visit to his principal, Mr. Jenkins, a dry, cold man with whom Meg herself has had unfortunate run-ins. The interview with Mr. Jenkins goes badly and Meg worriedly returns home to find Charles Wallace waiting for her. "There are," he announces, "dragons in the twins' vegetable garden. Or there were. They've moved to the north pasture now." Dragons? Not really, but an entity, a being stranger by far than dragons; and the encounter with this alien creature is only the first step that leads Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins out into galactic space, and then into the unimaginably small world of a mitochondrion. And, at last, safely, triumphantly, home.

Praise

"This is a breathtaking entertainment."
—(starred review) Library Journal

"Madeleine L'Engle mixes classical theology, contemporary family life, and futuristic science fiction to make a completely convincing tale that should put under its spell both readers familiar with the Murrys and those meeting them for the first time."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Through a day and night of terror, the forces of good and evil fight for the life of the boy and the ultimate salvation of mankind. Mrs. L'Engle proves once again that she is a fine and sensitive teller of tales."
—Publishers Weekly