Description:
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis - Space Trilogy, Bk 1ISBN-13: 9780020869108
ISBN-10: 002086910X
First Paperback Edition 1965
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Collier Books
Paperback,
4.1 x 7 inches, 160 pages
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Out of the Silent Planet is the first 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 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… Read More
