- Good and evil, Religious aspects, Enfer, Paradis
What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Louis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory.
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- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- HarperSanFrancisco, Fount, Geoffrey Bles
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780020867807
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Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
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