Many Waters
- 310
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Many Waters” at last gives the Murry twins a book of their own: a gentle time-travel story set among Noah’s family before the Flood. Some readers find that its religion belongs to the story without turning into a sermon, and place the book halfway between children’s and adult fiction. Unicorns, seraphim and nephilim cross the path of the two most ordinary Murrys.
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About the book
Many Waters is a 1986 novel by American author Madeleine L'Engle, part of the author's Time Quintet. The title is taken from the Song of Solomon 8:7: "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man were to give all his wealth for love, it would be utterly scorned."
Reading order · Time Quintet
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 149 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 50% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 25 | 17% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 124 | 83% |
Frequently asked
How long is Many Waters?
It has 310 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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