Swiftly Tilting Planet, A
by L'Engle, Madeleine
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a 1978 science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the Time Quartet. In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace Murry, a very advanced and perceptive child in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, has grown into an adolescent. His intelligence and remarkable goodness carry him through an adventure in time to save the world from nuclear disaster threatened by Mad Dog Branzillo, the dictator of the fictional South American country of Vespugia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 751189
- Title
- Swiftly Tilting Planet, A
- Author
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Childrens, Fiction, First Edition, , .
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