A Swiftly Tilting Planet

L'Engle, Madeleine (inscribed)

ISBN 10: 0374373620 / ISBN 13: 9780374373627

Published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1979

About this Item

Hardcover in Very Good condition in a near-fine dust jacket, 8vo, pages: [x],278. Black cloth with spine titles in gold, blue-gray end-papers, not price clipped ($7.95). Inscribed on L'Engle on front end-paper. 5th printing. Foxing to text block edges (see photo of top of block), boards lightly soiled/spotted, . Bookseller accession no.: 25308.

Seller Inventory # 003006

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374373620
• ISBN 13: 9780374373627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In this companion volume to "A Wrinkle In Time" (Newbery Award winner) and "A Wind In The Door" fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace 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.

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.