Perelandra: Libro 2 de La trilogía cósmica

Escrito por C. S. Lewis

Narrado por Pepe Mendoza

Perelandra, la segunda novela de la trilogía de ciencia ficción de Lewis, narra el viaje del Dr. Ransom al planeta paradisíaco de Perelandra, o Venus, que resulta ser un hermoso mundo parecido al Edén. Se horroriza al descubrir que su viejo enemigo, el Dr. Weston, también ha llegado y lo pone en grave peligro una vez más. Mientras el cuerpo del loco Weston es tomado por las fuerzas del mal, Ransom emprende una lucha desesperada para salvar la inocencia de Perelandra.

Perelandra

Perelandra, the second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy, tells of Dr. Ransom's voyage to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world. He is horrified to find that his old enemy, Dr. Weston, has also arrived and is putting him in grave peril once more. As the mad Weston's body is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom engages in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of Perelandra.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Grupo Nelson
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 3 may 2022
• ISBN: 9781400233168

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló. Sus contribuciones a la crítica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantástica y teología popular le trajeron fama y aclamación a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribió más de treinta libros, lo cual le permitió alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aún atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada año. Sus más distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Crónicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.

Comentarios para Perelandra

[marisol ortiz · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Gran detalle en la descripción y mucha información por discernir, ampliamente recomendado.

[Elkin Useche · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Es un libro que te permite reflexionar acerca de temas éticos. También su narrativa es amena.

[Sandra Soledad Alvarez · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Excelente libro. Muy entretenido y profundo a la vez. Te deja pensando.

[zoes_human · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

83 pages in and I find that I just don't care what happens at all. I'm putting this one down. Lovely prose, but not to my taste.

[hobbitprincess · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

The story begun in Out of the Silent Planet continues in this second book of C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy. This book to me was much different than the first. It seemed to be more science-fiction, while this second one has a significant religious overtone. Ransom is sent to Perelandra, or Venus to us, in search of an evil being that must be destroyed. The plot largely follows the story of Eve and the snake in the Garden of Eden. Weston, also from the first book, takes the part of the snake. This is not a light read; there is much room for serious thought, and I put the book down a few times just to think about what I'd read.

[agentx216 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

As the second book in the Space Trilogy, this one is really able to shoot straight out quickly and it does get right into things. While there is an overarching story, this one tends to be philosophy as story driven. Where book one was more about the inhabitants of Mars also recognizing God, this one is Venus as Eden and a new temptation. I would liken this book to the first book of the Narnia series. There is an interesting story with a different world but the Christian symbolism is more direct. The storyline is interesting and the portion where three of the main characters are interacting is very interesting and well written. I would have liked Lewis to have written more specifics in the conversation portion of this part of the book as it's a great "What If..." book. "What if fallen man had been there to help Eve at the Temptation?" Very interesting read and so far the best of the series. Final grade - A-

[seriousgrace · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Every time I read a science fiction of Lewis's I can't help but think of The Wardrobe series and how it could have easily been written in an even more fantastic manner. Instead of an unknown land beyond a wardrobe, the children could have landed on a completely different planet in a completely different universe. But I digress...Perelandra is a Planet of Pleasure (Venus) where strange desires give way to shameless naked beauty much like the Garden of Eden. Meanwhile, Evil is trying to create a New World Order. Sound familiar? Religion is heavy-handed and ever present in Lewis's work. Perelandra is either orgasmic or hellish; hideous or beautiful. The colors are vibrant and throbbing: gold and green oceans and silver flashes across the sky. That was the element of Perelandra I liked the best. The imagery was fantastic.Here's a stereotype: Ransom needs to travel naked like so many other time travelers. I guess clothes are hard to transmute through time and space.

[quietman66 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I first read this book in 2011 and enjoyed it then. I found it more meaningful the second time around, now that I am older, in the Perelandran sense.

[octoberdad · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

This was tougher to read than it should've been. I read it at least once before, in high school, but I don't recall it being quite so...uninteresting, for lack of a better term.

There are some moments of worth. Lewis has a knack for description, and his portrayal of Ransom's perusal of Perelandra is well done. Also, portions of dialogue between the various characters are quite well done.

However, Lewis seems to take things to the extreme. His description and dialogue become tedious at times, and his narrative devolves into tiresome reports of concepts that perhaps could be described more succinctly and clearly.

[drfuriosa · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This was an interesting take on the Eden/fall of humankind story, but there's some homecooked misogyny in there to remind us how very little Lewis understood women. Fun!

[cbl_tn · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

At some point after his adventures on Mars in Out of the Silent Planet, philologist Elwin Ransom is summoned to Venus for some unknown purpose. He arrives to find himself alone with unusual fauna amid floating islands that move with the rise and fall of the ocean waters. Eventually he meets the Green Lady, a queen who is searching for her king. Soon a familiar face from his own world arrives, and Ransom begins to understand why he was summoned here.This book seems to be an allegory for the creation account of Genesis, although at one point Lewis expressly tells his readers that it is not. Lewis presents an alternate world in which Eve (the Green Lady) resists temptation and the Fall doesn’t happen. While it’s the second book in Lewis’s space trilogy, it can be read independently of the trilogy. It’s been long enough since I’ve read Out of the Silent Planet that I’ve forgotten most of the details, but I never felt lost without them while reading Perelandra.

[raizel_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The book is Christian science fiction, one of the few (only one?) I've read. It takes a while for Ransom, our hero, to realize that just as his fellow earthman an agent of evil, he is in fact an agent of good and must take action himself, not rely on any other intervention. Page 200 has some interesting thoughts on Masculine and Feminine.It's the Garden of Eden story on Venus, but with Ransom there to try and stop the snake.

[hbuchana · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Essential Lewis reading. I have yet to find one of his works that does not reflect his deep religious thought. Perelandra is no exception.

[empress8411 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Starting from her early life, this book takes us through the remarkable life of Sojourner Truth. Born into slavery, she eventually because a free woman, and a powerful speaker against the injustice of that practice. This is an excellent biography. It does not glorify Truth, nor does it humilate her. It shows the complete woman - brilliant, flawed, strong, frail, and willful. Good biographies do not white-wash their subjects, and this is a good biography. Worth reading.

[liladillerauthor · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This is one of my favorite books of all time!! I read it over & over periodically. I love the theology incorporated into the story, especially in the "conversation" between Tor & Tinidril, Malacandra & Perelandra, & Ransom at the very end. I also love the descriptions of the scenery on Venus, so poetic.

[leandrod-2 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Great feat of imagination: Venus as another Earth, where the battle for the human soul does not finishes in a Fall.

[iamjonlarson · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Incredible

[evalangui_1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Half read, half listened. Mixed feelings about it, although it was interesting enough, pretty early sci-fi and different from I'm used to.

God brainwashing Ransom into doing his bidding is maybe even more horrifying than the devil taking over his evil counterpart. It's hilarious that the devil takes over a physicist and a philogist is God's messenger. Your issues are not showing, not at all, Lewis!

QUOTES comments:

∞ At Ransom’s waking something happened to him which perhaps never happens to a man until he is out of his own world: he saw reality, and thought it was a dream.

∞ But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backwards ... was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself - perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defence against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film.

∞ ‘I have been so young till this moment that all my life now seems to have been a kind of sleep. I have thought that I was being carried, and behold, I was walking.’

Ransom asked what she meant.

‘What you have made me see,’ answered the Lady, ‘is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet it has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one’s mind. Then, it may be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before that at the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or a setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished - if it were possible to wish - you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.’

‘I have been so young till this moment that all my life now seems to have been a kind of sleep. I have thought that I was being carried, and behold, I was walking.’

Ransom asked what she meant.

‘What you have made me see,’ answered the Lady, ‘is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet it has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one’s mind. Then, it may be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before that at the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or a setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished - if it were possible to wish - you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.’

Ransom interrupted. ‘That is hardly the same thing as finding a stranger when you wanted your husband.’

‘Oh, that is how I came to understand the whole thing. You and the King differ more than two kinds of fruit. The joy of finding him again and the joy of all the new knowledge I have had from you are more unlike than two tastes; and when the difference is as great as that, and each of the two things so great, then the first picture does stay in the mind quite a long time - many beats of the heart - after the other good has come. And this, O Piebald, is the glory and wonder you have made me see; that it is I, I myself, who turn from the good expected to the given good. Out of my own heart I do it. One can conceive a heart which did not: which clung to the good it had first thought of and turned the good which was given it into no good.’

∞ ‘You spoke yesterday, Lady, of clinging to the old good instead of taking the good that came.’

‘Yes - for a few heart-beats.’

‘There was an eldil who clung longer - who has been clinging since before the worlds were made.’

‘But the old good would cease to be a good at all if he did that.’

There are some very disturbing bits among this for a feminist. Because of course “Eve” is representing of womanhood. Later on, when the Angel and the Demon start fighting for her soul, both of them incarnated in male forms, with God being a He as well, it seems like the Lady is this child they get to manipulate.

∞ ‘That saying of yours is like a tree with no fruit. The King is always older than I, and about all things’

Which comes down to “Men know best.” I also don’t like how Weston uses stories of great women to convince her to renounce God. The implications of that are also terrible, and how Ransom “almost believes it” (ie. the superiority of the female sex), not that I think the superiority is true, but somehow the fact that those women were great and pioneers is never clarified. He dismisses their superiority but never awknowledges their greatness. Then there are moments where the message seems to be the oppossite, that women’s subservience to men serves no one, less of all men.

∞ It was not merely pity for pain that had suddenly changed the rhythm of his heart-beats. The thing was an intolerable obscenity which afflicted him with shame. It would have been better, or so he thought at that moment, for the whole universe never to have existed than for this one thing to have happened.

∞ It looked at Ransom in silence and at last began to smile. We have all often spoken - Ransom himself had often spoken - of a devilish smile. Now he realised that he had never taken the words seriously. The smile was not bitter, nor raging, nor, in an ordinary sense, sinister; it was not even mocking. It seemed to summon Ransom, with a horrible naivete of welcome, into the world of its own pleasures, as if all men were at one in those pleasures, as if they were the most natural thing in the world and no dispute could ever have occurred about them. It was not furtive, nor ashamed, it had nothing of the conspirator in it. It did not defy goodness, it ignored it to the point of annihilation. Ransom perceived that he had never before seen anything but half-hearted and uneasy attempts at evil. This creature was whole-hearted. The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence. It was beyond vice as the Lady was beyond virtue.

∞ ‘Other things, other blessings, other glories,’ he murmured. ‘But never that. Never in all worlds, that. God can make good use of all that happens. But the loss is real.’

At all events what Ransom saw at that moment was the real meaning of gender. Everyone must sometimes have wondered why in nearly all tongues certain inanimate objects are masculine and others feminine. What is masculine about a mountain or feminine about certain trees? Ransom has cured me of believing that this is a purely morphological phenomenon, depending on the form of the word. Still less is gender an imaginative extension of sex. Our ancestors did not make mountains masculine because they projected male characteristics into them. The real process is the reverse. Gender is a reality, and a more fundamental reality than sex. Sex is, in fact, merely the adaptation to organic life of a fundamental polarity which divides all created beings. Female sex is simply one of the things that have feminine gender; there are many others, and Masculine and Feminine meet us on planes of reality where male and female would be simply meaningless. Masculine is not attenuated male, nor feminine attenuated female. On the contrary the male and female of organic creatures are rather faint and blurred reflections of masculine and feminine. Their reproductive functions, their differences in strength and size, partly exhibit, but partly also confuse and misrepresent, the real polarity. All this Ransom saw, as it were, with his own eyes. The two white creatures were sexless. But he of Malacandra was masculine (not male); she of Perelandra was feminine (not female). Malacandra seemed to him to have the look of one standing armed, at the ramparts of his own remote archaic world, in ceaseless vigilance, his eyes ever roaming the earthward horizon whence his danger came long ago. ‘A sailor’s look,’ Ransom once said to me; ‘you know ... eyes that are impregnated with distance.’ But the eyes of Perelandra opened, as it were, inward, as if they were the curtained gateway to a world of waves and murmurings and wandering airs, of life that rocked in winds and splashed on mossy stones and descended as the dew and arose sunward in thin-spun delicacy of mist. On Mars the very forests are of stone; in Venus the lands swim. For now he thought of them no more as Malacandra and Perelandra. He called them by their Tellurian names. With deep wonder he thought to himself, ‘My eyes have seen Mars and Venus. I have seen Ares and Aphrodite.’ He asked them how they were known to the old poets of Tellus. When and from whom had the children of Adam learned that Ares was a man of war and that Aphrodite rose from the sea foam?

‘That is enough appearance for us to speak to you by. No more was needed between us: no more is needed now. It is to honour the King that we would now appear more.

No, seriously, what the fuck? What about the Queen? Not even freaking angels can be egalitarian?

[ex_ottoyuhr · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Creepy, but beautiful; well worth reading at least once.

[aliceap-1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The second in the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis, Perelandra, does not disappoint. Full of spiritual imagery and whimsy with his ever-present backbone of solid writing. Following Ransom on another mission through space which this time lands him on Perelandra (or as we call it Venus) the readers find him in a battle with an all too familiar enemy. It will be interesting to see how he concludes the saga in the final installment, That Hideous Strength.

[dinadansfriend · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Lewis himself never described these as Science Fiction, but as fairy tales. Now other writers have committed books as soft on Science as this, but called them Sci-Fi. I guess it was the prejudice against fantasy that was common in the 1950's and 60's, especially in the USA. This effort sees Arthur Ramsom coming to understand the function of the earth in the struggle of good and evil, and that people are an order of creation, but not the only creatures of importance in that creation. Thus, it is a good volume two in a trilogy.I'm plugging another book here, "Planet Narnia", by Michael Ward, a great book about Lewis.

[matthewgray-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Simply excellent. What an author.

[stuart10er_1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

A retelling of the story of the temptation of Eve set in Venus.

[snukes-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This is my favorite of the trilogy. His images and descriptions of the planet are fantastic, delightfully different than the world we know. The re-telling of the garden of Eden story is also well done, providing a very different perspective on all the "could have beens."

[tjsjohanna_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The world of Perelandra is so interesting - I want to see those floating islands. I found the parallels between Eve and the Green Lady so interesting and the spiritual battle Ransom had as he came to grips with what he needed to do. The ending got a little too philosophical for easy reading - but you get a great insight to Mr. Lewis' conceptions of God and his overall plan.

[sanddune_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I read Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, last year and enjoyed it, awarding it four stars, but I found this one a lot less to my taste. While Out of the Silent Planet had theological elements they were not overpowering and I enjoyed the picture which Lewis created of Malacandra (or Mars). But in Perelandra, while the world building still caught my interest, large sections of the book are devoted to theological arguments which most definitely did not. And the absence of women from the narrative seen in Out of the Silent Planet changes in Perelandra to a portrayal of women as subservient and almost childlike. So not a hugely successful read, and disappointing given my reaction to the first book and the fact that C.S. Lewis's Narnia books were some of my favourite reads from childhood.Elwin Ransom, the philologist and Cambridge don who is the unlikely hero from Out of the Silent Planet, is again the main character in Perelandra. Sent to Perelandra (or Venus) by the Oyassa (or ruler) of Mars to carry out an unnamed task he finds himself in a watery world, where initially the only 'land' seems to be provided by large floating islands made of vegetation. Large and beautiful floating islands with flowers and trees and woods and birds and animals, which all rush up and down the huge waves which surge around the oceans of Venus. Rather than being wholly alone as he had feared, Ransom eventually meets a green-skinned 'human', referred to throughout as the 'lady', and eventually comes to realise that she and the 'king' are the only two intelligent beings on the planet. Biblical references come thick and fast: it is soon clear that Perelandra is a picture of Paradise before the Fall, and the 'king' and the 'lady' are the Adam and Eve of another world. But temptation soon arrives, in the form of the scientist Weston, Ransom's enemy from Out of the Silent planet, whose endless conversations with the 'lady' bring the planet to the brink.There is very little plot and most of the book deals with the temptation of the 'lady'. Theological arguments are not really my thing, but if they're well argued I'm prepared to give them a go: these just seemed flawed at times and to have noticeable holes in them. And I felt the allegories would have worked better if they had just been a little more subtle, these were just so obvious. In a similar way to his Narnia books, Lewis uses characters and creatures from various mythologies in this novel, and tries to tie them all together. I felt that in a children's book that was acceptable, but here he seems to be trying to create an allegory of an overarching theology, so why only use Western mythology? Isn't that a little Eurocentric?So overall not a brilliant book for me.

[joeteo1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This is the continuation from the book "Out of the Silent Planet". I did not enjoy the second part of this trilogy as much as the first. The story is told in an awkward manner in the third person. The entire "Space Trilogy" from Lewis has very Christian themes and whereas the religious imagery was subtle in the first book, it becomes overwhelming in the second. I will likely read the last installment just to see how it ends but I was not so impressed with Perelandra.

[lcoale1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I really enjoy this novel. I've read it twice and I love how deep it is and how Lewis writes. I don't have a lot to say about it though, other than it's really good.

[lisamaria_c · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This is the second book in the "Space Trilogy" that began in Out of the Silent Planet. I've seen the titles on several science fiction recommendation lists, and the books are considered classics of the genre, but if you've read the first two books, it's evident that what Lewis wrote was consciously un-science fiction. That's not simply because of the liberties taken with science--pretty much all science-fiction writers do that. Einstein's theory of Relativity tells us nothing can exceed the speed of light, and our science tells us any inhabitable planets are years and years away at that top speed, but it doesn't stop such contrivances as "hyper-drive" and "warp drive." Nor is it so much that this isn't so much fiction about science and technology as it is Christian allegory. Early on in Out of the Silent Planet I thought it obvious these books have much more in common with Milton or Swift than Verne or Wells. That's only underlined in this novel which is basically a Paradise Lost set on Venus, with the "Green Lady" as an unfallen Eve and Weston from the previous novel in the role of the serpent--and it's very Miltonian in the way he attempts to subvert her. But then all great science fiction has its underlying message. You can't read Isaac Asimov's Naked Sun or Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or even Scott Westerfeld's Specials without being aware of a message, even if it's much more blatant in Lewis.Part of Lewis' message though is against the humanistic thrust of science fiction itself. In the last book, Ransom spoke of the purpose of the book as "a change-over from the conception of Space to the conception of Heaven." This book talks of the very idea and dream of space exploration, particularly as envisioned in science fiction, as opening "a new chapter of misery for the universe." There's an anti-Reason and anti-science streak in Lewis--and Christianity--I've always found unattractive very evident here. And at times I found his Christian polemic eye-rolling. Especially early on when one absurdity of the doctrine of bodily resurrection is pointed out to Ransom and he counters with this idea of the "trans-sexual." (Admittedly, a lot of the giggle-worhiness of the moment comes from a contemporary meaning of the term Lewis could not have anticipated.) I see Ransom's arguments as much as a sophistry as those of Weston. (Much of Weston's cant is strikingly contemporary--when he rants against "dualism", I can't help but think of a friend's tirade against "binaries.") Like another reviewer though, I did find it disconcerting that Lewis--or at least Ransom--feels violence is a great resolution to a conflict when you're losing an argument. In other words, for all that so many have pointed me to him as a Christian apologist with a brain who would appeal to an intellectual, I don't find Lewis convincing.So why did I keep reading anyway despite all I found dreary, unappealing and unconvincing? Well, partly because I do want to read the conclusion, That Hideous Strength, because I hear it deals with Arthurian legend. But there's also that I have no doubt when I'm reading him that Lewis is a first rate writer with a first rate mind. He's a pleasure to read, despite his didacticism. And you know, I've seen Lewis accused of racism and sexism in Narnia. I thought that a bum rap even while reading Narnia for several reasons, but it's only cemented in my mind that's wrongheaded reading these two books. The first book stands as a great refutation and repudiation of racism and imperialism to my mind, and the books stand out to me as the anti-thesis of xenophobia, with imaginative alien worlds that stand very much in contrast to more paranoid scenarios of alien beings. It's evident--and all the more resonant knowing the first book was published in 1938 and this one in 1944--that Lewis very much does not believe color or shape matters. Lewis might be an Englishman and in many ways conservative--that doesn't make him a Kipling. And while I can see a patriarchal thrust to the "Green Lady" and her King... Well, admittedly, I might not feel that way if I hadn't read Paradise Lost recently and noted all the ways Milton ground the very idea of Eve being an equal into dust... but in contrast Lewis doesn't come across as misogynistic to me given this book is practically, Paradise Retained, Or Milton Fan Fiction.So, yes, a superbly written and at times thought-provoking (even if at times hair-pulling) book worth the reading, even if it lacks the charm of the Narnia books. And a short, fast paced read too.

[davegregg_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

So great! Lewis' thought screams from the pages of this book, as it does from "Out of the Silent Planet" (As of this writing, I have yet to read "That Hideous Strength," but it's next.) Just for the allegorically and dialogically _nonfiction value_ of this book alone (that is, nonfiction content in the form of symbolism and commentary by the narrator or conversation between fictional characters), it is an exceedingly worthy read!