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Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)

  • 1986 first published
  • 310 pages
  • ★ 3.5 (25 ratings)
  • 26 editions

Many Waters (Time Quintet #4) is a 1986 time-travel fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is set in 1986. It features Noah (Biblical figure). Key subjects include many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle, children's and books.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.5 out of 5 from 25 ratings, and 124 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 26 editions.

It runs to roughly 310 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them. The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful Nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Era

  • 1986

Characters

  • Noah (Biblical figure)

Subjects

  • Many Waters
  • Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children's
  • Juvenile
  • Books
  • Stories
  • Noah's Ark
  • Twins
  • Fantasy
  • Time travel
  • Space and time
  • Science fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Murry family
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Noah's ark

Quick answers

Who wrote Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)?

Many Waters (Time Quintet #4) was written by Madeleine L'Engle and first published in 1986.

What genre is Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)?

The median edition has 310 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)?

Readers who like it often enjoy Test of the Twins, The Dark Is Rising and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.

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