{"title":"Library Of America Madeleine L'engle Edition","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"madeleine-l-engle-the-polly-o-keefe-quartet-loa-310-book-madeleine-l-engle-9781598535792","title":"Madeleine L'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet (LOA #310)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time\u003c\/i\u003e was only the beginning—now, discover the thrilling adventures of Meg Murry’s daughter, Polly, in this gorgeous deluxe edition of a beloved children’s classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Madeleine L’Engle’s \u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written, a thrilling tale in which fourteen-year-old Meg Murry and her schoolmate Calvin O’Keefe use a tesseract to travel across space and time to save Meg’s scientist father from dire forces threatening the universe. But \u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time\u003c\/i\u003e was only the beginning of the adventure. Now, for the first time, L’Engle’s iconic classic and all seven of its sequels—the complete Kairos (“cosmic time”) novels—are collected in a deluxe two-volume Library of America edition, together with never-seen-before deleted passages and hard-to-find essays in which L’Engle reflects on her work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin’s daughter Polly takes center stage. In \u003ci\u003eThe Arm of the Starfish\u003c\/i\u003e, Polly disappears, and Calvin’s research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In \u003ci\u003eDragons in the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of love in \u003ci\u003eA House Like a Lotus\u003c\/i\u003e. 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