The Space Trilogy : Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength

Resumen del libro

This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis's classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume.

The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C.S..Lewis. This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based.

OUT OF THE SILENT PLANETDr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there... PERELANDRAHaving escaped from Mars, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus.

When his old enemy also arrives and is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world... THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTHInvestigating the truth about her prophetic dreams, Jane Studdock encounters the fabled Dr Ransom, who is in great pain after his travels. A sinister society run by his old adversaries intends to harness the ancient powers of a resurrected Merlin in their ambition to subjugate the people of Earth...

Biografía del autor

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los gigantes intelectuales del siglo XX y uno de los escritores más influyentes de su tiempo. Fue fellow y tutor en Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue unánimemente elegido catedrático de literatura medieval y renacentista en Cambridge. Escribió más de una treintena de libros y sus trabajos continúan acaparando la atención de miles de lectores cada año. Es universalmente conocido, además, por sus exitosas novelas de fantasía, como las que integran la saga de las Crónicas de Narnia, que han vendido más de cien millones de ejemplares y han sido adaptadas para el cine con gran éxito.