50'Engle's right-known works come divided between "chronos" and "kairos"; the previous is the framework where the stories of the Austinside personal choose place, & is presented in a primarily naturalistic framework, though at times sustaining elements that will become repute science fiction. A latter is a framework where the stories of the Murry & O'Keefe families choose place, & is presented for instance around the naturalistic framework & periodically within the additional fantastic or magical framework. Usually speaking, a supplementary naturalistic kairos lesson is witnessed in the O'Keefe stories, which treat by having a 2nd generation characters.

A Murry-O'Keefe & Austin families should non become regarded when sleep in separate worlds, because many characters cross all over between the two, & historical cases come too shared.

The theme typically silent & now and agaaround expressed in L'Engle's works is that what homo call for "religion", "science" & "magic" come only different aspects of one seamless reality: the similar theme can be discerned in the fiction works of C. S. Lewis or Laurell K. Hamilton. Nonetheless, it doesn't seem when though Fifty'Engle is trying to solidify or even even canonize the placed philosophy or belief models. A questions that she raises locate a thoughtful reader.

Partial list of works

Kairos
First-generation (Murry) A Wrinkle in Time (1962) (Newbery Award Winner) A Wind in the Door (1973) A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) Many Waters (1986)

Second-generation (O'Keefe) The Arm of the Starfish (1965) Dragons in the Waters (1976) A House like a Lotus (1984) An Acceptable Time (1989)

Chronos
Meet a Austins (1960) A Moon By Nighttime (1991) A Young Unicorns (1968) The Ring of Endless Weak (1980) (Newbery Honor Book) Troubling the Star (1994) The Cut off Wasp (1982)

Other Fiction
Katherine Forrester Series: A Little Rain (1945) Prelude (1968) The Cut off Wasp (1982)

Camilla Dickenson: Camilla (1951) The Survive Coal in the Sea (1996)

Individual Titles: Ilsa (1946) & Two Were Young (1949) A Billet doux (1966) A More Side Of The Sun (1971) Certain Women (1996)

Poetry: Lines Scribbled In An Envelope (1969) A Atmospheric condition Of The Heart (1978) The Cry Such as The Bell (1987) ''A Ordering of Love: A Just released & Collected Poems of Madeleine 50'Engle'' (2005) (includes reprints from either a above)

Astir 50'Engle: ''Madeleine 50'Engle Herself: Reflections in the Writing Life'' Compiled by Carole Chase

Important L'Engle characters
Recurring Kairos Characters:
Murry
Alexander Murry — Astrophysicist in the employ of the United States government. He participate witharound an early experiment in "tessering" & was consequently misused on the planet Camazotz for many years.

Katherine Murry — Microbiologist and Nobel laureate. Works from either science laboratory placed at her rural residence.

Meg (Margaret) Murry — Eldest girl of Alexander & Katherine. Somewhat awkward & apparently as an teenager, she acquired social graces & beauty when you took a course of her maturation covered inside The Wrinkle eventually, The Wind in the Door, & The Swiftly Tilting Planet. As a toddler, she was nighest to her immature brother, Charles Wallace; around late life, Charles Wallace was largely absentminded owing to secret responsibilities. These are periodically ambiguous whether 1000000 is only the mathematical genius or even has as well acquired her Ph.D.

Sandy (Alexander) & Dennys (Dionysus) Murry — Twin sons of Alexander and Katherine. It describe themselves when a "squares" of the Murry kin group. When adolescent, it take a hike to Biblical days, specifically a instance immediately preceding a Deluge. Around down the road life, Sandy is an "anti-corporate" attorney, & Dennys occurs as doctor.

Charles Wallace Murry — A immature of the Murry kinship group. Charles Wallace is "something new", we.e., superhuman inside intelligence (broadly conceived), an evolutionary next step. He occurs as key protagonist inside The Wrinkle eventually & The Swiftly Tilting Planet, a places for the climax of The Wind in the Door, however mostly absentminded from either a late books.

O'Keefe
Calvin O'Keefe — Marine biologist, husband of One thousand thousand, father of the big brood. As the son, Calvin was a "sport" among what a uncharitable may call for devolve white trash, excelling academically, socially, & within sports from either either an early age, however feeling disconnected from his peers. He discovered a admittedly residence by using the Murrys.

Polly/Poly (Polyhymnia) O'Keefe — Eldest tike of Million & Calvin. Known as, somewhat to her annoyance, by her nonconcentric Godfather Canon Tallis. Poly participate around various socio-political intrigues around Arm of the Sea star & Dragons in the Waters, additional home ones within Home prefer the Lotus, & is incorporated into a Murry instance-&-space travel tradition by using An Acceptable Period.

Charles O'Keefe — Known as for Charles Wallace Murry, Charles is characterized by sensitivity to others, esp, & an introverted portable style.

Other
Simon Bolivar Quentin Phair Renier — Simon appears in Dragons in the Waters as a immature son of unfortunate however blue southern background, flung somewhat suddenly into a wide globe fallowing a low of a portrait of Bolivar which was one of the go heirlooms of his personal. He encounters a O'Keefe kwithin & Canon Tallis, & finally inherit call for by having a second placed of noble roots in distant Venezuela.

Crossover characters:
Canon Tallis — Tallis is probably a virtually all often recurring character forgoing hereditary affiliation to the Murrys & Austins. prefer like the cross between G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown and Ian Fleming's James Bond, Tallis provides spiritual leadership and insight into the realms of crime and international intrigue in equal measure.

Adam Eddington — Marine life scientist. Adam number one appears around Arm of the Sea star working as an houseman for Calvin O'Keefe. He is caught higher around a power struggle between the O'Keefes & an unscrupulous industrialist vying for control of an emergent medical technology. Late, working sustaining dolphins (to which he was introduced by Polly O'Keefe) around Up to date England, he inherit email using Vicky Austin.

Zachary Gray — Super affluent, malcontent young human, oscillatory between his desires for redemption & self-destruction. Has like complex relationships by having two Polly O'Keefe & Vicky Austin.

Katherine Forrester (Vigneras) — Independent character of The Microscopic Rain (too published when Prelude) & The Severed Wasp. In The Microscopic Rain, Katherine occurs as talented, however socially isolated, teenager researching to become the concert piano player at the nonindulgent boarding school. Katherine reappears around Severed Wasp at a more prevent of her life, as an old woman (okay, Katherine Vigneras) seeking back in her life & career. Katherine Vigneras too appears within The Ring of Endless Weak while she plays the recital that Vicky Austin & Zachary Gray attend.