A Wind in the Door (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Madeleine L'Engle
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fantasy, Young adult literature
- Subjects: Supernatural, Space flight or travel, Time travel, Good and evil, Quest
A Wind in the Door takes the children of the Time Quartet even further into the science-fiction and fantasy world of the tesseract as they eventually travel time and space to enter the mitochondria of Charles Wallace's cells, as tiny as the farandola that they are accompanying.
The novel opens with the discovery that Charles Wallace is ill and weakening. This illness, readers discover later in the novel, is caused by evil forces of the Echthroi, who are eliminating stars in the universe and creating a rip in the galaxy. The forces of the Echthroi are also affecting...
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