Other editions of book Perelandra

The second book in a celebrated space trilogy which begins in Out of this Silent Planet and is concluded in That Hideous Strength. A sharp, sophisticated fantasy dealing with an old problem--tempation--in a new world--Perelandra. The newest planet in C.S. Lewis's celebrated space worled, Perelandra has been invaded by the devil's agent in the shape of an English physicist, Dr. Weston. Evil joins battle with good, represented by Ransom the philologist, and Perelandra and its Queen and Lady-Mother face the choice between ascending to perfection or following an older world to corruption.

Perelandra is a planet of pleasure - an unearthly, misty world of strange desires, sweet smells and delicious tastes, where beasts are friendly and naked beauty is unashamed, a new Garden of Eden - where the story of the oldest temptation is enacted in an intriguingly new way. Here, in the second part of the trilogy, Dr. Ransom's adventures continue against the backdrop of a religious allegory that, while it may seem quaint in its treatment of women today, nonetheless shows the capability of science to be an evil force tempting a ruler away from the path that has produced a paradisiac kingdom.