That Hideous Strength

by Lewis, C.S.

• ISBN13: 9780743234924
• ISBN10: 0743234928
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-13
• Publisher: Scribner

Summary

The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includesOut of the Silent PlanetandPerelandra, That Hideous Strengthconcludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed inOut of the Silent PlanetandPerelandraare 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.

Author Biography

C.S. Lewis was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Mere Christianity. He died in 1963.

Table of Contents

Sale of College Property	p. 11
Dinner with the Sub-Warden	p. 32
Belbury and St. Anne's-on-the-Hill	p. 50
The Liquidation of Anachronisms	p. 72
Elasticity	p. 92
Fog	p. 116
The Pendragon	p. 136
Moonlight at Belbury	p. 157
The Saracen's Head	p. 178
The Conquered City	p. 202
Battle Begun	p. 228
Wet and Windy Night	p. 246
They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads	p. 268
"Real Life Is Meeting"	p. 292
The Descent of the Gods	p. 317
Banquet at Belbury	p. 340
Venus at St. Anne's	p. 357
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