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That Hideous Strength

That Hideous Strength

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Publisher: Scribner
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Pages: 384
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Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 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 its moral concerns.

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.

C. S. Lewis:

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.

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Joseph Raborg
Lewis's True Masterpiece

Most Lewis fans consider The Screwtape Letters his best work. Lewis himself felt it to be Till We Have Faces. The first excels at delineating spiritual warfare. The second delves deeply into the tortuous nature of the human soul. However, That Hideous Strength describes the battle between good and evil as it affects various characters in a world much like the one we live in. It builds off the conflict presented in the prior two works of the Space Trilogy, but it may easily be enjoyed alone. One of the great treats of the book is how Lewis depicts the wizard Merlin, and no other modern author does it better--not even T. H. White in The Once and Future King. That Hideous Strength counts as one of the 100 books one needs to read before one dies. Enjoy!