Good Enough

The opening of Edward Bulwer-Lytton s 1830 novel Paul Clifford, It was a dark and stormy night, has been held up as a model of bad writing for nearly two centuries. But it s also the opening sentence of Madeleine L Engle s award-winning 1962 young adult science fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time. Apparently this was deliberate. L Engle biographer Leonard Marcus writes, With a wink to the reader, she…