The Tesseract:
A Madeleine L'Engle Bibliography

The O'Keefe Family Novels

Dr. Calvin O'Keefe, his wife Meg and their children, Polly [a.k.a. Polyhymnia or Poly], Charles, Sandy, Dennys, Peggy, Johnny and Rosy. Poly (later Polly) is the primary protagonist of most of these stories, sometimes accompanied by her brother Charles.

THE ARM OF THE STARFISH Adam Eddington [A Ring of Endless Light, Troubling a Star] is sent for a summer internship with marine biologist Dr. Calvin O'Keefe [first introduced as a teenager in A Wrinkle in Time], only to become embroiled in a web of danger and intrigue, unable to tell the good guys from the bad guys. First published appearance of Canon Tallis [The Young Unicorns  etc.].

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 242 pages	0374303967	$18.00	Farrar Straus & Giroux	1965	available	current edition is same ISBN as my 1982 copy; not sure if there are any major variations in editions. (8.41" x 5.92" x .92")
mass market paperback	0440901839	$4.50	Dell Laurel-Leaf	Jan 1980	available	6.75" x 4.18" x .48"

*current price as of 2001; only given for books that are still in print

DRAGONS IN THE WATERS Simon Renier, Poly and Charles face murder and attempted murder as Simon accompanies a family portrait of Bolivar and a mysterious long-lost cousin on a ship to South America. Mr. Theo and Canon Tallis [both of whom appear in The Young Unicorns ] are featured. More about the Renier family (Simon's cousins and ancestors) can be found in the Other Side of the Sun  and to a lesser extent Ilsa .

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 293 pages	0374318689	$17.00	Farrar Straus & Giroux	1976	available	8.37 "x 5.71" x 1.22"
mass market paperback	0440917190	$4.99	Dell Laurel-Leaf	Aug 1982	available	6.77" x 4.25" x .62"

*current price as of 2001; only given for books that are still in print

A HOUSE LIKE A LOTUS On a trip to Athens and Cyprus, Polly must deal with memories of betrayal by her mentor, Maximiliana Horne, as well as the advances of Zachary Grey [A Ring of Endless Light, etc.]. Frank Rowan [Camilla ] and Virginia Bowen Porcher [A Winter's Love] appear.

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 308 pages	0374333858	$17.00	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Nov 1984	available	school & library binding
mass market paperback	0440936853, 9991247149	$4.50	Dell Laurel-Leaf	Dec 1985	available	6.79" x 4.23" x .66"

*current price as of 2001; only given for books that are still in print

AN ACCEPTABLE TIME Polly visits her maternal grandparents [A Wrinkle In Time  etc.] in Connecticut, and is reunited with Zachary Grey [The Moon By Night, etc.], with whom she takes a journey into Earth's distant past. Dell Publishing markets this title as the fifth and final volume of the Time Quintet (see the Murry Family books page).

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 343 pages	0374300275	$18.00	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Nov 1989	available	First Edition School & Library Binding
turtleback edition	0606045988	$10.25	Demco Media	Dec 1994	may be available	"Turtleback" is probably a hardcover library binding with no dust jacket.
mass market paperback	0440208149	$4.99	Dell Laurel-Leaf	Dec 1990	available	6.75" x 4.37" x 1.01"

*current price as of 2001; only given for books that are still in print

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