Perelandra
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Physical Desc
190 pages ; 24 cm.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1020L
Status
PCPLS - Valparaiso Public Library - Adult Spanish
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Book
Language
sp
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 7.3, 15 Points
Level 7.3, 15 Points
Lexile measure
1020
Notes
General Note
The second of a trilogy, the title of the first being Out of the silent planet and that of the third That hideous strength.
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The second book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, this is a sharp, sophisticated fantasy that deals with an old problem, temptation, in a new world, Perelandra. "Mr Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable".-The New York Times. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C.S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom after his dear friend J.R.R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia as children, unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time. In Perelandra, Dr. Ransom is recruited by the denizens of Malacandra, befriended in Out of the Silent Planet, to rescue the edenic planet Perelandra and its peace-loving populace from a terrible threat: a malevolent being from another world who strives to create a new world order, and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lewis, C. S. 1. Perelandra .
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963. Perelandra. .
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963. Perelandra .
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963. Perelandra
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