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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle
i Copyright ┬й1978 by Crosswicks, Ltd.
All rights reserved
Third printing, 1979
Printed in the United States of America
Published simultaneously in Canada by
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto
Designed by Suzanne Haldane
Library of Congress Cataloging
in Publication Data
L'Engle, Madeleine.
A swiftly tilting planet.
summary: The youngest of the Murry children must
travel through time and space in a battle against an
evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
[i. Science fiction] I. Title.
[Fie]7^-9648ISBN 0-374-37362-0
ii for Hal Varsell
1 Contents
1 In this fateful hour3
2 All Heaven with its power29
3 The sun with its brightness48
4 The snow with its whiteness67
5 The fire with all the strength it hath87
6 The lightning with its rapid wrath107
7 The winds with their swiftness149
8 The sea with its deepness159
9 The rocks with their steepness187
10 The earth with its starkness210
11 All these I place227
12 Between myself and the powers of
darkness268
2 A Swiftly Tilting Planet
3
The big kitchen of the Murrys' house was bright and warm, curtains drawn
against
the dark outside, against the rain driving past the house from the northeast.
Meg Murry O'Keefe had made an arrangement of chrysanthemums for the dining
table, and the yellow, bronze, and pale-gold blossoms seemed to add light to
the
room. A delectable smell of roasting turkey came from the oven, and her
mother
stood by the stove, stirring the giblet gravy.
It was good to be home for Thanksgiving, she thought, to be with the reunited
family, catching up on what each one had been doing. The twins, Sandy and
Dennys, home
4
from law and medical schools, were eager to hear about Calvin, her husband,
and