tetralogy

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Just as in the first installment of this cinematic treatment of Russian novelist Sergei Lukyanenko's fantasy tetralogy, the story can sometimes be a little confusing, but this is one of the rare instances where a sequel is superior to its predecessor.

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  1. noun A series of four related dramatic, operatic, or literary works.
  2. noun Medicine A complex of four symptoms.

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  • For the development of the great tetralogy, this is the most important scene of all, and, as such, it will probably meet with the necessary sympathy and attention. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
  • Ordinarily I would quail at starting to read a “duology” or “sequence” of almost two thousand pages—enough for a tetralogy at the very least, and god knows how long to reach the conclusion, if ever, if there turns out to be more beyond Judas Rising . —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • Some younger readers have the misconception that Gene Wolfe's brilliant Book of the Long Sun tetralogy was the first to examine the final days of an Earth in the thrall of planetary entropy. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 06 - June 1997
  • My work also pleases me again; my Nibelung tetralogy is completely designed, and in a few months the verse also will be finished. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
  • The culminating art-splendor of his life, however, was the production of his stupendous tetralogy, the “Ring der Nibelungen,” at the great opera-house at Baireuth, in the summer of the year 1876. —  The Great German Composers
 

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  1. Greek tetralogiā : tetra-, tetra- + -logos, word, saying; see -logy.

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  1. = French tétralogie, from Greek τετραλογία, a group of four dramas, from τετρα-, four, + λόγος, speech.
 

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