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A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

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Author Biography

Name: Madeleine L'Engle
Birth Date: November 29, 1918
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, lecturer

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Biography of Madeleine L'Engle
5690 words, approx. 19 pages
"I was born in New York City on the snowy night of November 29, 1918, shortly after the first World War, and think it's the nicest place in the world to be born in. I grew up on East 82nd Street. "My father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a foreign correspo...
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Biography of Madeleine (Camp Franklin) L'Engle
5414 words, approx. 18 pages
Madeleine L'Engle's writings reflect her passionate concern with major aspects of life: a happy family life, the right and responsibility of the individual to make choices, the art of writing, death, and God. Because L'Engle writes about such topics in s...
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Biography of Madeleine L'Engle
2538 words, approx. 8.5 pages
Madeleine L'Engle is a writer who resists easy classification. She has successfully published plays, poems, essays, autobiographies, and novels for both children and adults. She is probably best known for her "Time Fantasy" series of children's books, in...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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A Wind in the Door Information
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<i>A Wind in the Door</i> (1973, ISBN 0-374-38443-6) is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a sequel to <i>A Wrinkle in Time</i>, and part of the Time...


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'A Wrinkle in Time' author L'Engle dies
9/7/2007: 735 words, approx. 3 pages
Author Madeleine L'Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has captivated generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88. L'Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield, said Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar,...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Wayne Dodd
514 words, approx. 2 pages
[Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door] attempts to get to the spiritual by way of fantasy/science fiction. But she also takes other routes as well: namely both the "dragon" road and that familiar street that runs through the unnoticed gap in the everyday and into the beyond. The result is that, in terms of wonder, we get nowhere. Mrs. L'Engle really can't make up her mind whether she wants the reader to be involved in the realistic dimension of her story (which is...
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Critical Essay by Robert Bell
119 words, approx. 0 pages
Adult admirers of Miss L'Engle will appreciate [A Wind in the Door], her most virtuoso performance in fantasy to date, but I have a lingering doubt if any but the more virtuoso young readers will be able to escape a good deal of bewilderment. The plot is enormously exciting, though I have the same kind of reservations about the solution as some reviewers had about that in Alan Garner's The Owl Service. The book will not be for every child; a good many will find it puzzling, but for the discern...
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A Wind in the Door
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A book review on Madeleine L'Engle`s novel "A Wind in the Door."


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