Books

The Hidden Error L’Engle Left in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’

FIX GREEK; DON’T FORGET!

Madeleine L’Engle’s granddaughter helps explain how a strange error had gone uncorrected over innumerable printings since 1962.

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Re-reading A Wrinkle in Time the other day for the first time since childhood, I came on a bit of garbled ancient Greek.

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