Synopses & Reviews
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. Finding himself in a world of superior alien beings and scientific experiments run amok, Dr. Ransom struggles with questions of ethics and morality, applying age-old wisdom to a brave new universe dominated by science. His quest for truth is a journey filled with intrigue and suspense.
About the Author
C. S. Lewis was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Mere Christianity. He died in 1963.
Table of Contents
Contents Preface
1 Sale of College Property
2 Dinner with the Sub-Warden
3 Belbury and St. Anne's-on-the-Hill
4 The Liquidation of Anachronisms
5 Elasticity
6 Fog
7 The Pendragon
8 Moonlight at Belbury
9 The Saracen's Head
10 The Conquered City
11 Battle Begun
12 Wet and Windy Night
13 They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads
14 "Real Life Is Meeting"
15 The Descent of the Gods
16 Banquet at Belbury
17 Venus at St. Anne's