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 AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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- Tania B
- 24-04-19
Good but not the Great I was expecting
This book started well for me, story and character building were captivating. However, I felt it weakened towards the end and didn't have the climax early build up indicated it would have.
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.
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- 31-10-20
Wonderful
I've loved this book ever since I first read it. The performance does the book justice and I've listened to it several times since I bought it. It really is worth listening to. Camazotz and IT give me the shivers every time. This is a wonderful book in the sense that parts of it fill me with wonder.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-06-19
The best road trip entertainment!
we loved listening to this wonderful book with our 6 year old son on a road trip.
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- LJ COWARD
- 16-10-23
I loved it
It was cool it had i to be one of the best I’ve ever Listen to
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-07-21
Brilliantly read, this is a fascinating fable
The performance makes a difference to audio books, so it's great to know right off the bat that the narrations compliments the story well. the reader gives each character a distinct voice and brings some complicated imagery to life without 'over-acting'.
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.
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- DiamondDog
- 12-06-23
What we don’t understand
It is a beautiful play of words, it's story is of mind and love, of emotions and humanity, to not understand, is to dismiss, because it's flow is nit based in mundane story telling, asking the reader to free themselves to the telling and expectation of what a tale should be. To paraphrase, we are given shape to expand, to grow in. You may not free your mind, but you may just free your spirit.
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- MRS R SIMPSON
- 02-10-18
Early Sci Fi for children
I bought this book in 1966 when I had just begun High School, and it has remained a favourite of mine for years. The story is a lovely tale about an average American family with highly intelligent parents, and two of their four children unusual and intelligent in their own special way. When their father disappears without explanation the two unusual children find themselves in the middle of a science fiction adventure to discover where their father is and how to get him and themselves safely home. They discover with the help of 3 ladies how to travel through space and time and to rescue their father from a strange planet. Their discoveries also help them learn a lot about themselves and how to cope better with life when they return to Earth. To say anymore would spoil the story, and I deliberately have not been to see the film recently made of this book, mainly because the 3 ladies who help them bear no resemblance to those in the book. The 3 ladies in the book for me were part of the reason for reading on as they were so strange, and almost believable.
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- T. Rogers
- 05-06-22
Ok child's book. Not worth the hype.
Ok child's book. Not worth the hype. Well read. Nothing special. Probably best for ages 7-10 joint reading or 9-11 solo.
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- Mrs. B. Gillespie
- 30-07-23
Pretty good
It's got a great story line but the performance was pretty B.A.D. But overall great story 🙃
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- Rob W.
- 05-01-18
Great story, well read!
I did not know what to expect but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the excellent performance.
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