That hideous strength : a modern fairy-tale for grownups

Date:

1965.

Author:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963, author.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Call Number:

PR 6023 E926 T53X 1965 LOCAL

Publisher:

Macmillan Company

Abstract:

"The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close." --Amazon.com.

Physical Description:

382 pages ; 18 cm

Series:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Space trilogy ; 2.

Notes:

"The conclusion of a celebrated space trilogy which begins in Out of the Silent Planet and continues in Perelandra." LOCAL

Subjects:

Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character) Fiction, Life on other planets Fiction, College teachers Fiction, Good and evil Fiction, Philologists Fiction, Linguists Fiction, College teachers, Good and evil, Life on other planets, Linguists, Philologists, and Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character)

Genres/Forms:

Science fiction, Science fiction. lcgft, Fiction, and Science fiction. gsafd