A Swiftly Tilting Planet

L'Engle, Madeleine

ISBN 10: 0374373620 / ISBN 13: 9780374373627

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978

About this Item

Stated first printing. Inscribed by Madeleine L'Engle to previous owners at FFEP. Black cloth with silver spine titling, very good with light spotting to back. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light toning and edgewear, including a few small closed tears from top edge of rear panel and a tiny chip from top edge of front. Textblock edges foxed. Interior clean and bright, text unmarked.

Seller Inventory # BBS-2018460

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374373620
• ISBN 13: 9780374373627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's - Chapter Books and YA

About this title

Synopsis

The third book in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time Quintet. Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy series that has delighted children for over 60 years!

The Murry and O'Keefe Families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war.

* “An intricately woven fantasy.” ―Booklist, starred review

When Charles Wallace Murry shouts out in desperation an ancient rune meant to ward off the dark, a radiant creature appears. It is Gaudior, unicorn and time traveler. Charles Wallace and Gaudior must travel into the past on the winds of time to try to find a Might-Have-Been--a moment in the past when the entire course of events leading to the present can be changed, and the future of Earth--this small, swiftly tilting planet--saved.

Praise for A Wrinkle in Time:
-NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER
-TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME
-NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY

Books by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time

A Wrinkle in Time: The GraphicNovel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by HopeLarson: A graphic novel adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breakingscience fiction and fantasy classic.

Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: Astandalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time!

The Austin Family Chronicles
Meet the Austins (Volume 1)
The Moon by Night (Volume 2)
The Young Unicorns (Volume 3)
A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book!
Troubling a Star (Volume 5)

The Polly O'Keefe books
The Arm of the Starfish
Dragons in the Waters
A House Like a Lotus

And Both Were Young

Camilla

The Joys of Love

About the Author

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was the Newbery Medal-winning author of more than 60 books, including the much-loved A Wrinkle in Time. Born in 1918, L'Engle grew up in New York City, Switzerland, South Carolina and Massachusetts. Her father was a reporter and her mother had studied to be a pianist, and their house was always full of musicians and theater people. L'Engle graduated cum laude from Smith College, then returned to New York to work in the theater. While touring with a play, she wrote her first book, The Small Rain, originally published in 1945. She met her future husband, Hugh Franklin, when they both appeared in The Cherry Orchard. Upon becoming Mrs. Franklin, L'Engle gave up the stage in favor of the typewriter. In the years her three children were growing up, she wrote four more novels. Hugh Franklin temporarily retired from the theater, and the family moved to western Connecticut and for ten years ran a general store. Her book Meet the Austins, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book of 1960, was based on this experience. Her science fantasy classic A Wrinkle in Time was awarded the 1963 Newbery Medal. Two companion novels, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet (a Newbery Honor book), complete what has come to be known as The Time Trilogy, a series that continues to grow in popularity with a new generation of readers. Her 1980 book A Ring of Endless Light won the Newbery Honor. L'Engle passed away in 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut.