C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet
Hardcover
(MacMillan Company Jan. 1, 1943)
"Having already earned a reputation as a formidable literary scholar, C. S. Lewis scandalized his fellow Oxford dons in 1938 when he published a fantasy novel, Out of the Silent Planet...Lewis hoped that taking his readers on a voyage to another world would give them another perspective on this one." In the opening pages of the story, we meet Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist on a solitary walking tour. The real adventure begins when Ransom is drugged by a former schoolmate. Awakening in an eerie metal chamber, he realizes he is traveling in space and fears for his own sanity as he contemplates the idea of traveling so far from earth into the dark vastness that separates the worlds. But when he looks out the window, Ransom is not appalled but rather awed by the splendid scene spread before his eyes.
- Pages
- 174
- Weight
- 17.6 oz.
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