Madeleine L'Engle

Many Waters is a 1986 novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the author's Time Quartet. The title is taken from the Song of Solomon 8:7: "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man were to give all his wealth for love, it would be utterly scorned." The principal characters of the story are …

Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are just sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner when her father gets a phone call from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only an old Irish rune seems to hold a clue to averting worldwide disaster, and and when Meg's brother Charles Wallace, now fifteen, recites it, a …

Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill.But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--actually a …

Nelle pieghe del tempo è un romanzo science fantasy per bambini di Madeleine L'Engle, scritto tra il 1959 e il 1960 e pubblicato nel 1962 dopo più di quattro rifiuti dell'editore perché era, nelle parole di L'Engle, "troppo diverso". Il libro giunse a vincere un Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, e Lewis Carroll …