THE SPACE TRILOGY: OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET , PERELANDRA, and THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013]. Octavo, pictorial boards. New edition. This edition done for the 75th anniversary of the publication of the first book. Short foreword and afterword by J.R.R.Tolkien (excerpted from THE LETTERS OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN). The "Ransom Trilogy" (a.k.a. "The Perelandra Trilogy" or "The Cosmic Trilogy") comprising OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (1938), PERELANDRA (1943), and THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH: A MODERN FAIRY-TALE FOR GROWN-UPS (1945). This trilogy is Lewis's "best-known adult fiction, beginning as sf and slipstreaming into Christian fantasy." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997). p. p. 577. The trilogy "constitutes as a whole a highly sophisticated Christian rebuttal to the world-view -- today called 'secular humanism' -- of H. G. Wells." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-116. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-394; (1981) 3-499; (1987) 3-263; (1995) 3-116; and (2004) II-669. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-214. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1790-97. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1632-36, IV, pp. 1669-73 and V, pp. 2250-54. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 216. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 118-20. Bleiler (1978), p. 123. Reginald 09004, 09005 and 09011]. Several nicks and scratches to boards, a very good to nearly fine copy. (33992). Item #33992
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