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The third and final novel in his classic trilogy, That Hideous Strength is set in an English university town where Dr Ransom has settled on return from his interplanetary travels. This quiet setting becomes the centre of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity, a plot to recreate mankind in the image of slave robots. Dr Ransom, the clairvoyant Jane and Druid Merlin, who ascends from his Arthurian tomb to aid them, are ranged together against the dark powers of evil... C.S. Lewis' classic novels of the interplanetary travels and adventures of Dr Ransom - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra (Voyage to Venus), and That Hideous Strength - are published with the full text and original titling intended by the author for the first time in paperback with these new Pan editions. An extravagant mingling of dream and realism...excellent and thrilling reading - Daily Telegraph Brilliant wit superlatively nonsensical excitement, challenging implications - New York Times
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That Hideous Strength, Clive Staples Lewis
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- Released
- 1983
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- That Hideous Strength
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Clive Staples Lewis
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Released
- 1983
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN10
- 0330281607
- ISBN13
- 9780330281607
- Series
- The Space Trilogy
- First published
- 1945
- Original title
- That Hideous Strength (Cosmic Trilogy 3)
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
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- The third and final novel in his classic trilogy, That Hideous Strength is set in an English university town where Dr Ransom has settled on return from his interplanetary travels. This quiet setting becomes the centre of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity, a plot to recreate mankind in the image of slave robots. Dr Ransom, the clairvoyant Jane and Druid Merlin, who ascends from his Arthurian tomb to aid them, are ranged together against the dark powers of evil... C.S. Lewis' classic novels of the interplanetary travels and adventures of Dr Ransom - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra (Voyage to Venus), and That Hideous Strength - are published with the full text and original titling intended by the author for the first time in paperback with these new Pan editions. An extravagant mingling of dream and realism...excellent and thrilling reading - Daily Telegraph Brilliant wit superlatively nonsensical excitement, challenging implications - New York Times