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Overview

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet -- Perelandra -- when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom's mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.

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Commonweal

Writing of the highest order. Perelandra is, from all standpoints, far superior to other tales of interplanetary adventures.

Los Angeles Times

Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions.

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Mr. Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable.

New Yorker

If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.

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ISBN-13: 9780743234917
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 3/11/2003
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 39,143
Lexile: 1020L (what's this?)
Series: Space Trilogy Series, #2
Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis was famous both as a fiction writer and as a Christian thinker, and scholars sometimes divide his personality in two. Yet a large part of Lewis's appeal, for both his audiences, lay in his ability to fuse imagination with instruction. "Let the pictures tell you their own moral," he once advised writers of children's stories. "But if they don't show you any moral, don't put one in."

Biography

C. S. Lewis was famous both as a fiction writer and as a Christian thinker, and his biographers and critics sometimes divide his personality in two: the storyteller and the moral educator, the "dreamer" and the "mentor." Yet a large part of Lewis's appeal, for both his audiences, lay in his ability to fuse imagination with instruction. "Let the pictures tell you their own moral," he once advised writers of children's stories. "But if they don't show you any moral, don't put one in. ... The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind."

Storytelling came naturally to Lewis, who spent the rainy days of his childhood in Ireland writing about an imaginary world he called Boxen. His first published novel, Out of the Silent Planet, tells the story of a journey to Mars; its hero was loosely modeled on his friend and fellow Cambridge scholar J.R.R. Tolkien. Lewis enjoyed some popularity for his Space Trilogy (which continues in Perelandra and That Hideous Strength), but nothing compared to that which greeted his next imaginative journey, to an invented world of fauns, dwarfs, and talking animals -- a world now familiar to millions of readers as Narnia.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book of the seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia, began as "a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood," according to Lewis. Years after that image first formed in his mind, others bubbled up to join it, producing what Kate Jackson, writing in Salon, called "a fascinating attempt to compress an almost druidic reverence for wild nature, Arthurian romance, Germanic folklore, the courtly poetry of Renaissance England and the fantastic beasts of Greek and Norse mythology into an entirely reimagined version of what's tritely called 'the greatest story ever told.'"

The Chronicles of Narnia was for decades the world's bestselling fantasy series for children. Although it was eventually superseded by Harry Potter, the series still holds a firm place in children's literature and the culture at large. (Narnia even crops up as a motif in Jonathan Franzen's 2001 novel The Corrections). Its last volume appeared in 1955; in that same year, Lewis published a personal account of his religious conversion in Surprised by Joy. The autobiography joined his other nonfiction books, including Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Great Divorce, as an exploration of faith, joy and the meaning of human existence.

Lewis's final work of fiction, Till We Have Faces, came out in 1956. Its chilly critical reception and poor early sales disappointed Lewis, but the book's reputation has slowly grown; Lionel Adey called it the "wisest and best" of Lewis's stories for adults. Lewis continued to write about Christianity, as well as literature and literary criticism, for several more years. After his death in 1963, The New Yorker opined, "If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels."

Good To Know

The imposing wardrobe Lewis and his brother played in as children is now in Wheaton, Illinois, at the Wade Center of Wheaton College, which also houses the world's largest collection of Lewis-related documents, according to The Christian Science Monitor.

The 1994 movie, Shadowlands, based on the play of the same name, cast Anthony Hopkins as Lewis. It tells the story of his friendship with, and then marriage to, an American divorcee named Joy Davidman (played by Debra Winger), who died of cancer four years after their marriage. Lewis's own book about coping with that loss, A Grief Observed, was initially published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk.

Several poems, stories, and a novel fragment published after Lewis's death have come under scrutiny as possible forgeries. On one side of the controversy is Walter Hooper, a trustee of Lewis's estate and editor of most of his posthumous works; on the other is Kathryn Lindskoog, a Lewis scholar who began publicizing her suspicions in 1988. Scandal or kooky conspiracy theory? The verdict's still out among readers.

1. Also Known As:
  
  Clive Staples Lewis (real name); Clive Hamilton, N.W. Clerk, Nat Whilk; called "Jack" by his friends
1. Date of Birth:
  
  November 29, 1898
2. Place of Birth:
  
  Belfast, Nothern Ireland
1. Date of Death:
  
  November 22, 1963
2. Place of Death:
  
  Headington, England

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Chapter 1

As I left the railway station at Worchester and set out on the three-mile walk to Ransom's cottage, I reflected that no one on that platform could possibly guess the truth about the man I was going to visit. The flat heath which spread out before me (for the village lies all behind and to the north of the station) looked an ordinary heath. The gloomy five-o'clock sky was such as you might see on any autumn afternoon. The few houses and the clumps of red or yellowish trees were in no way remarkable. Who could imagine that a little farther on in that quiet landscape I should meet and shake by the hand a man who had lived and eaten and drunk in a world forty million miles distant from London, who had seen this Earth from where it looks like a mere point of green fire, and who had spoken face to face with a creature whose life began before our own planet was inhabitable?

For Ransom had met other things in Mars besides the Martians. He had met the creatures called eldila, and specially that great eldil who is the ruler of Mars or, in their speech, the Oyarsa of Malacandra. The eldila are very different from any planetary creatures. Their physical organism, if organism it can be called, is quite unlike either the human or the Martian. They do not eat, breed, breathe, or suffer natural death, and to that extent resemble thinking minerals more than they resemble anything we should recognise as an animal. Though they appear on planets and may even seem to our senses to be sometimes resident in them, the precise spatial location of an eldil at any moment presents great problems. They themselves regard space (or "Deep Heaven") as their true habitat, and the planets are to them not closed worlds but merely moving points -- perhaps even interruptions -- in what we know as the Solar System and they as the Field of Arbol.

At present I was going to see Ransom in answer to a wire which had said "Come down Thursday if possible. Business." I guessed what sort of business he meant, and that was why I kept on telling myself that it would be perfectly delightful to spend a night with Ransom and also kept on feeling that I was not enjoying the prospect as much as I ought to. It was the eldila that were my trouble. I could just get used to the fact that Ransom had been to Mars...but to have met an eldil, to have spoken with something whose life appeared to be practically unending....Even the journey to Mars was bad enough. A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover. But much worse my growing conviction that, since his return, the eldila were not leaving him alone. Little things in his conversation, little mannerisms, accidental allusions which he made and then drew back with an awkward apology, all suggested that he was keeping strange company; that there were -- well, Visitors -- at that cottage.

As I plodded along the empty, unfenced road which runs across the middle of Worchester Common I tried to dispel my growing sense of malaise by analysing it. What, after all, was I afraid of? The moment I had put this question I regretted it. I was shocked to find that I had mentally used the word "afraid." Up till then I had tried to pretend that I was feeling only distaste, or embarrassment, or even boredom. But the mere word afraid had let the cat out of the bag. I realised now that my emotion was neither more, nor less, nor other, than Fear. And I realised that I was afraid of two things -- afraid that sooner or later I myself might meet an eldil, and afraid that I might get "drawn in." I suppose every one knows this fear of getting "drawn in" -- the moment at which a man realises that what had seemed mere speculations are on the point of landing him in the Communist Party or the Christian Church -- the sense that a door has just slammed and left him on the inside. The thing was such sheer bad luck. Ransom himself had been taken to Mars (or Malacandra) against his will and almost by accident, and I had become connected with his affair by another accident. Yet here we were both getting more and more involved in what I could only describe as inter-planetary politics. As to my intense wish never to come into contact with the eldila myself, I am not sure whether I can make you understand it. It was something more than a prudent desire to avoid creatures alien in kind, very powerful, and very intelligent. The truth was that all I heard about them served to connect two things which one's mind tends to keep separate, and that connecting gave one a sort of shock. We tend to think about non-human intelligences in two distinct categories which we label "scientific" and "supernatural" respectively. We think, in one mood, of Mr. Wells' Martians (very unlike the real Malacandrians, by the bye), or his Selenites. In quite a different mood we let our minds loose on the possibility of angels, ghosts, fairies, and the like. But the very moment we are compelled to recognise a creature in either class as real the distinction begins to get blurred: and when it is a creature like an eldil the distinction vanishes altogether. These things were not animals -- to that extent one had to classify them with the second group; but they had some kind of material vehicle whose presence could (in principle) be scientifically verified. To that extent they belonged to the first group. The distinction between natural and supernatural, in fact, broke down; and when it had done so, one realised how great a comfort it had been -- how it had eased the burden of intolerable strangeness which this universe imposes on us by dividing it into two halves and encouraging the mind never to think of both in the same context. What price we may have paid for this comfort in the way of false security and accepted confusion of thought is another matter.

"This is a long, dreary road," I thought to myself. "Thank goodness I haven't anything to carry." And then, with a start of realisation, I remembered that I ought to be carrying a pack, containing my things for the night. I swore to myself. I must have left the thing in the train. Will you believe me when I say that my immediate impulse was to turn back to the station and "do something about it"? Of course there was nothing to be done which could not equally well be done by ringing up from the cottage. That train, with my pack in it, must by this time be miles away.

I realise that now as clearly as you do. But at the moment it seemed perfectly obvious that I must retrace my steps, and I had indeed begun to do so before reason or conscience awoke and set me once more plodding forwards. In doing this I discovered more clearly than before how very little I wanted to do it. It was such hard work that I felt as if I were walking against a headwind; but in fact it was one of those still, dead evenings when no twig stirs, and beginning to be a little foggy.

The farther I went the more impossible I found it to think about anything except these eldila. What, after all, did Ransom really know about them? By his own account the sorts which he had met did not usually visit our own planet -- or had only begun to do so since his return from Mars. We had eldila of our own, he said, Tellurian eldils, but they were of a different kind and mostly hostile to man. That, in fact, was why our world was cut off from communication with the other planets. He described us as being in a state of siege, as being, in fact, an enemy-occupied territory, held down by eldils who were at war both with us and with the eldils of "Deep Heaven," or "space."

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Anonymous

Posted August 1, 2008

Truly beautiful

I read a lot, at least 2-3 books a month- and only once before have I come across a book that literally took my breath away (Jane Eyre). C.S. Lewis' Perelandra is well written, flowing, philosophical and entertaining all at the same time. I lived every moment with Ransom as he lived on Venus. I worried with him, I sweated with him, I bled with him, I swam with him, and I rejoiced with him. This is truly a literary treasure for all. Christians I think will find it especially stirring.

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Posted May 29, 2008

A Beautiful Picture of Eden -- On Venus

Perelandra continues the travels of Ransom. Unlike his accidental journey to Mars in Out of the Silent Planet, this time he is sent by angels to prevent the Adversary from sullying an incorrupt planet, a world newly endowed with life--Venus, or as the inhabitants call it, Perelandra. C.S. Lewis writes with his well-known descriptive power, portraying a warm, tropical world of great oceans a floating islands. Here, Ransom must keep those on Perelandra from falling for the temptations of pride, rebellion, self-pity, vanity, selfish ambition, and discontent. In this marvelous work, C.S. Lewis thrills with one of his greatest books. You will be drawn into Perelandra, and yet will not be bored with endless scenery descriptions or the like. The beauty of his writing is that he unveils a world in a few words, words filled with depth and meaning, and which add to the morals of the story. There is hardly a word that is not directly connected to the plot. It is a matchless work of science fiction literature. ---Ryan Robledo Author of the Aelnathan

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Posted August 2, 2007

Lewis at his best

Perelandra, the second part of C.S. Lewis¿s Space Trilogy, surpasses ¿Out of the Silent Planet¿ (a fine work indeed) and does not cease to astound the reader. Lewis has an uncanny ability to create feelings in his readers that strike a chord deep in the soul. I was utterly disturbed by some of his imagery and will not cease to be haunted by it however, the overall piece is a work of art, bringing the reader to experience all of Ransom¿s (the protagonist's)deepest feelings: from wonder and curiosity, to absolute terror, from utter loathing to absolute adoration, every part of the spectrum. A faith strengthening read for any Christian and a thought-provoking and enlightening one for the more skeptical: Perelandra is a work that inspires and that I recommend to everyone.

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Posted February 9, 2006

IT DESERVES A MUSICAL SCORE!

I was so blown away philosophically by this book, that I made it into a screenplay and a friend of mine has made a musical score for the film. Very profound in its portrayal of the insidiousness of evil and its affect on innocence. Even though it is part of a trilogy, it stands very much on its own as a single reading. It isn't necessary to read the other books to enjoy this one!

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Posted November 1, 2005

One of the Best Books I've Ever Read!!!

Amazing...this book really makes you think about the fallingness of mankind into sin, and the lengths that one man must go through to save another planet from ending up the same way because of Lucifer--God never left this one man alone to fight the battle.

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Posted August 12, 2003

An awesome book!

This was probably the best book i ever read (besides the Bible) It really makes you think about the spiritual side of things. It shows Gods awesome triumph over evil and how God can use one of his children.

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Posted June 28, 2003

A Satircal Fantasy Beyond Any Other

Whew. I must admit that I very nearly busted a vein in my cranium after reading this masterful theological fantasy. And that is, at least what I believe, to be Perelandra's only flaw. It's SO heavy in philology, theology, and religion, that it will probably turn away many of the readers who may find interest in the book. Yet, those who can get past the incredibly descriptive and philology-based scenes that Lewis concocts, will find a hidden treasure wrought with all that a Lewis fan could ever want with the 2nd installment of this series. Yet another religion-based, allegorical, and satirical fantasy that will definitely go down as a decidedly complex masterpiece to all those who read it.

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Posted January 20, 2000

Fantastic Fantasy

An excellent second installment in the trilogy. Lewis presents a philosophical evaluation of good and evil reworking christian alagories. Lewis has the ability to present both sides of his philosophies so that the reader knows on which side he stands but realizes that he has put a lot of thought into the opposing view.

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Posted March 22, 2009

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Beautiful, enchanting, and moving

I have read nearly all of Lewis' books. Perelandra and Till We Have Faces are my two favorites. Lewis' space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength) form a masterpiece of literature. The scenery in Perelandra is breathtaking. The plot is riveting. Another reviewer used the word "haunting." I echo that sentiment. Over the years since I first read this book, I have found myself daydreaming of Perelandra on many occasions. (The only other book that has had such a profound impact on my imagination is George MacDonald's book entitled, Phantastes.) I encourage the prospective reader to read the first book in Lewis' trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet) before reading Perelandra.

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Posted August 20, 2001

a great sequel

Perelanda is decidedly better than out of the silent planet. In Perelanda Ransom travels to venus, to defend it from the fall of man that took place on earth with adam and eve...

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Posted December 15, 1999

Garden of Eden Part II

This is an excellent story in which Lewis tells anew a parallel story of Eden and the fall of man. This time the story has a slightly different ending.

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Posted May 8, 2012

Beautiful word pictures

Don't waste time reading my review; read this book.
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Posted January 2, 2012

Beautiful!

Recreation of Adam & Eve set on Venus. Breathtakingly written. The scenery will capture you and the story will be ingrained in your heart.
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JeanFairclough

Posted December 19, 2011

Wonderful book -- narrator is very good (believe me, this matters)

I first read C. S. Lewis's space trilogy at the age of 15 and enjoyed it immensely. The trilogy opened up a philosophical and spiritual "bent" in me that remains to this day. I'm now 68 years old, read them actually listened to them on my Walkman) again and enjoyed them in more even ways now that I'm older and have lived through life's stages. Perelandra is probably my favorite of the three books in the trilogy -- at 15 I was surprised by the ending, which was pleasurable, but this second time through knowing the story and ending ahead of time gave me the enjoyment not only of the story but also of how C. S. Lewis carries the reader toward the culmination of the story. This time I picked up on hints C. S. Lewis placed in the book to enable the reader to begin to figure out why the main character is where he is. There are parts of Out of the Silent Planet that rival my enjoyment of Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength runs nose-to-nose with Perelandra, but probably because as a woman I relate very easily to the wife who is a main character in That Hideous Strength.
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CL_Adams

Posted June 29, 2009

fantastic combination of fantasy and science fiction

(warning: plot reveals) as well as faith. the second of a famous trilogy, this story really grabbed me. i enjoyed better than the first which is not the usual or norm. it is so hard for a sequel to outdo the original, but i feel that this book triumphed in that respect. imagine the garden of eden and its inhabitants. imagine them never betraying their rule and Creator. imagine them living on in perfect harmony for ages. now change that thought and put them on another world where sin is not even a concept. death, dishonesty, pain, and so on...they have no meaning, not part of the vocabulary. sweet, right? well this story has that setting, with an imperfect earthling thrown in the mix. actually several. some playing devil's advocate, earth-form of the devil and the first temptation while a lone adventurer and hero of the story tries to aid in keeping the blissful world as is and lessen the shock of his and his fellow earthlings polutant poisoned presence. i love that. i have often wondered what is space travel is not allowed due to some worlds still living sin free for eternity. this book explores that concept as well. not totally faith based or "religious" but the same ideals are still there. perfect "untamed" and "savage" (the two inhabitants are nude, they know it not) world invaded by greedy, dishonest, and power-lust filled individuals from another world who has long since lost, forgotten, and reveled their perfection. a debate starter for sure. or simple conversation piece. another in a "not able to put down". true that on occassion it gets wordy, but it has purpose. not just text to fill pages and make the requirement, but largely and heated debated issues on faith, philosophy, and morals make up the written word. as well as questions about imperfection interacting with perfection, old venom attacking fresh blood. (metaphors are awesome, sorry.) but yea, this was flippin' awesome. it explored a concept i have tempted (no pun intended. read the book and you'll know why i write this) to conceive and explore. i doubt that one could read this and not find some sort of enjoyment, rather it be your dislike for the faith comparisons or moral dilemmas depicted or distasts in fantasy/sci-fi or enjoyment at the different take on an old argument: nature vs nurture. are we the way we are because we have grown to it, or has it always been destiny? all of that sort of thing. enjoy! i know i did
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Posted June 13, 2009

Good for Questioning Reality

Lewis provides other ideas about friendship in the first of the series. Contiuing with the trend he bring about questions of good and evil, along with our role in the continuing battle.
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