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C.S. Lewis Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength
CS Lewis Trilogy Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength Author:C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis's classic space trilogy was written immediately before and during World War II as an impassioned response to a civilization in jeopardy. All three volumes focus on the adventures of an unlikely hero: Dr. Elwin Ransom, a mild-mannered philogist modeled after Lewis's friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien. In Out of the Silent Planet, L... more »ewis takes the reader on a hazardous journey to the lush and fanciful Malacandra (known to us as Mars). Kidnapped by two space-hopping colleagues, Ransom must confront the "bent" oens: evil beings who would ransack the world's resources for their own foul ends. In Perelandra, when those same enemies wage war on the eponymous planet-which is also known as Venus-Ransom joins his old Malacandran compatriots in a fight to insure that the inhabitants of Perelandra remain as spiritually pure as their Edenic surroundings. And That Hideous Strength combines classic elements of gothic and dystopian tales: underground passages, fascist conspirators, bizarre scientific experiments, and a psychic who sees the future in nightmarish dreams. Here Ransom must battle his old interplanetary foes in order to save his home planet: Earth. In the remarkable novels of this exclusive Quality Paperback Book Club edition, Lewis has crafted what The New Yorker has called an "elaborate satiric picture of the war between morality and devilry."« less