
A Wrinkle in Time
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Narrated by:
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Hope Davis
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Ava DuVernay
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Madeleine L'Engle
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Charlotte Jones Voiklis
About this listen
Madeleine L’Engle’s ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture. This audiobook includes an introduction read by the film director Ava DuVernay, a foreword read by the author, and an afterword read by Madeleine L’Engle’s granddaughter Charlotte Jones Voiklis.
Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a “tesseract”, which, if you didn’t know, is a wrinkle in time. Meg’s father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?
In 1962, Madeleine L’Engle debuted her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which would go on to win the 1963 Newbery Medal. Bridging science and fantasy, darkness and light, fear and friendship, the story became a classic of children’s literature and is beloved around the world.
A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in The Time Quintet, which consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.
© 2007 by Taeeun Yoo. Used with permission of Pippin Properties, Inc.
©1962 Madeleine L'Engle (P)2011 Random House AudioGreat story, lovely narration
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I'm not saying it isn't worth a listen as it is but I wouldn't say it's brilliant and am not in a rush to read again. Perhaps what was ahead of it's time is no longer as intriguing to modern day reader/listener.
Good but not the Great I was expecting
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Wonderful
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The best road trip entertainment!
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I loved it
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The story itself is a planet hoping tale of good vs evil that eschews most technological sci-fi 'stuff' in favour of a more spiritual journey where the characters' self-realisation is more important than far out scientific concepts.
It's tightly written and well paced with some unique but never self-consciously wacky events and situations as a team of unlikely kids search the universe for two of the kids' missing father with the help of some strange 'people' who take them on a journey.
It's an affecting and imaginative story full of intrigue, danger and wonder and the character moments feel very real amongst the bizarre situations and planet-hoping events.
A Wrinkle in Time defies fitting into any genre, but feels like it could be enjoyed by anyone, it's a really powerful and satisfying adventure.
Brilliantly read, this is a fascinating fable
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What we don’t understand
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Early Sci Fi for children
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Ok child's book. Not worth the hype.
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Pretty good
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