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Perelandra (2) (The Space Trilogy)

Perelandra (2) (The Space Trilogy)

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Perelandra (2) (The Space Trilogy)

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which <I>Perelandra</I> is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's <I>The Plague</I> and George Orwell's <I>1984</I> as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom after his dear friend J. R. R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Namia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time. <BR> In <I>Perelandra,</I> Dr. Ransom is recruited by the denizens of Malacandra, befriended in <I>Out of the Silent Planet,</I> to rescue the edenic planet Perelandra and its peace-loving populace from a terrible threat: a malevolent being from another world who strives to create a new world order, and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so.

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Country
USA
Brand
SCRIBNER
Manufacturer
Scribner
Binding
Hardcover
ItemPartNumber
9780684833651
ReleaseDate
1996-10-01T00:00:01Z
UnitCount
1
Format
Special Edition
EANs
9780684833651

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