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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet) Hardcover – July 1, 1978
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- Reading age10 - 14 years
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level6 - 9
- Lexile measure850L
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.81 x 8.5 inches
- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication dateJuly 1, 1978
- ISBN-100374373620
- ISBN-13978-0374373627
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| Read them all! | One of the most significant and acclaimed fantasy novels of our time that weaves together mythology and science. | The second fantastic adventure story in the Time Quintet involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe. | In this third installment in The Time Quintet, Meg's brother Charles Wallace has twenty-four hours to stop the tragedy of nuclear war from occurring. | This fourth installment in The Time Quintet focuses on Meg's twin brothers and their own amazing time traveling adventure. | In the final book of The Time Quintet, Polly O'Keefe visits her grandparents in Connecticut, and finds herself caught up in the lives of three mysterious strangers who lived 3,000 years ago. |
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- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition (July 1, 1978)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0374373620
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374373627
- Reading age : 10 - 14 years
- Lexile measure : 850L
- Grade level : 6 - 9
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.81 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #740,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #319 in Teen & Young Adult Time Travel Fiction
- #1,258 in Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature
- #13,715 in Teen & Young Adult Fantasy
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Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918, and spent her formative years in New York City. Instead of her school work, she found that she would much rather be writing stories, poems and journals for herself, which was reflected in her grades (not the best). However, she was not discouraged.
At age 12, she moved to the French Alps with her parents and went to an English boarding school where, thankfully, her passion for writing continued to grow. She flourished during her high school years back in the United States at Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, vacationing with her mother in a rambling old beach cottage on a beautiful stretch of Florida Beach.
She went to Smith College and studied English with some wonderful teachers as she read the classics and continued her own creative writing. She graduated with honors and moved into a Greenwich Village apartment in New York. She worked in the theater, where Equity union pay and a flexible schedule afforded her the time to write! She published her first two novels during these years—A Small Rain and Ilsa—before meeting Hugh Franklin, her future husband, when she was an understudy in Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. They married during The Joyous Season.
She had a baby girl and kept on writing, eventually moving to Connecticut to raise the family away from the city in a small dairy farm village with more cows than people. They bought a dead general store, and brought it to life for 9 years. They moved back to the city with three children, and Hugh revitalized his professional acting career.
As the years passed and the children grew, Madeleine continued to write and Hugh to act, and they to enjoy each other and life. Madeleine began her association with the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, where she was the librarian and maintained an office for more than thirty years. After Hugh’s death in 1986, it was her writing and lecturing that kept her going. She lived through the 20th century and into the 21st and wrote over 60 books. She enjoyed being with her friends, her children, her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren.
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Overall it's a great story, but for me it struggled in two places. First, keeping all the characters and their relationships to one another straight was at times a challenge, because you're meeting so many people and then moving on to meet others. The names are kept very similar from generation to generation to try and help with this, but that sometimes just added to the sense of confusion. Second, the conclusion of the story leaned heavily towards the idea that ancestry was a determinant of character. The characters, in the end, were slaves to the decisions made by their antecedents. Lots of older stories have this idea in the background, but in this story the concept was put front and center in the story's eventual resolution. The story does not present any of the drama of characters struggling against the destinies shaped for them by their ancestors, it simply focuses on trying to ensure that the "right" line is ultimately secured. It's a conclusion that may or may not work for today's sensibilities.
But, despite that, it's a good read and has a lot of interesting ideas and secrets to uncover along the way.
Like an old bathrobe still thick and warm. I still love this story that much.
Aside from the religion and the classism, these quaint books haven't aged terribly well. They are cute, but have no where near the detail and intrigue of modern sci-fi/distopian works. There's a lot of passive voice, and trite dialogue. Problems are resolved quickly. When Meg is whining about how she can't possible discern which principal is the real one I was ready to throw the book against the wall. Maybe younger readers will appreciate it more!
Science fiction that will appeal to both children and adults.
Charles Wallace must unravel a strange Irish rune, and Meg must help him. While Meg can not physically help, she must be in contact with CW mentally. CW is now 15, and Meg is married and pregnant in this third book of the series.
I was thrilled with the history given in this book. I like the way the author chose to tie the names together, and that the ties were not revealed too early. While the names were a bit confusing to keep straight, the fact that the relationships did tie together was wonderful. I found the time jumps a bit difficult to keep straight in my own mind, but the story kept me reading. The suspense in this book is just right, enough to keep me reading, but not so much that I had to read without breaks.
I have found Madeleine L'Engle's books to be very entertaining. This author has found a way to introduce science and mystery into fiction. These books have a way of staying interesting, even after many years.
I think both children and adults will enjoy reading this story. I will be reading “Many Waters”, the next book in this great series.
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血がつながっていても争わすにはいられない人間の性。違いを受け入れられず高まっていく狂気。あざなえる縄のように繰り返される悲劇。
メグの夫カルビンの母ブランウェン・マドックスとアイルランドの古詩が大きな鍵を握っています。
人名や時代が錯綜するので、メモを取りながら読むのがお薦めです。
The book is great - such a pity.








