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Time Quartet: A Wrinkle in Time, Major Characters in the Works of Madeleine L'engle, Places in the Works of Madeleine L'engle, Time Quartet
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-02.
ISBN 9781155286846
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: A Wrinkle in Time, Major Characters in the Works of Madeleine L'engle, Places in the Works of Madeleine L'engle, Time Quartet, a Wind in the Door, an Acceptable Time, Meg Murry, a Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, Calvin O'keefe, Sandy and Dennys Murry, a Wrinkle in Time, Polly O'keefe, Charles Wallace Murry. Excerpt: A Swiftly Tilting Planet A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a 1978 science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle , part of the Time Quartet . In A Swiftly Tilting Planet , Charles Wallace Murry , a very advanced and perceptive child in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door , has grown into an adolescent. His intelligence and remarkable goodness carry him through an adventure in time to save the world from nuclear disaster threatened by Mad Dog Branzillo, the dictator of the fictional South American country of Vespugia. In order to change the outcome of the present, Charles Wallace must change the past, in a series of "might-have-beens", events which are turning points fought over by the powers of good and evil. The book's title is an allusion to the poem, "Morning Song of Senlin", by Conrad Aiken . Plot summary The book opens on Thanksgiving evening, about 10 years after the events of A Wind in the Door . Meg is now married to Calvin and is expecting their first child. Calvin has become a scientist and is in Britain at a conference. The Murry family is joined for Thanksgiving dinner by an unusual guest Meg's very antisocial mother-in-law, Mrs. O'Keefe. When they receive the news of impending nuclear war caused by the dictator Mad Dog Branzillo, Mrs. O'Keefe lays a charge on Charles Wallace to prevent the disaster. She teaches him "Patrick's Rune ", a rhyming prayer of protection that has been passed down to her from her Irish grandmother. Charles Wallace goes for a wa
Liknande böckerMadeleine L'Engle Characters, Including: Echthroi, Charles Wallace Murry, Meg Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, Polly O'Keefe, Sandy and Dennys Murry, Canon Tallis, Adam Eddington, Vicky Austin, Zachary Gray, Major Characters in the Works of Madeleine L'Engle
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