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That Hideous Strength : a Modern Fairy-tale for Grown-ups by Anne Marie Mueser; C. S Lewis; Ian Serraillier; Bernard Evslin; Susan Cooper; Rober Lancelyn Green; Isaac Asimov; Edith Hamilton; Walter Dean Myers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.**ReviewThe New Yorker In his usual polished prose, the author creates an elaborate satiric picture of a war between morality and devilry.The New Yorker If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.Los Angeles Times Lewis, perhaps more th

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Author
Anne Marie Mueser; C. S Lewis; Ian Serraillier; Bernard Evslin; Susan Cooper; Rober Lancelyn Green; Isaac Asimov; Edith Hamilton; Walter Dean Myers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780743234924
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Children'S, Science Fiction, Fiction
Rating
4.18 / 5 (37,812 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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