- Linguists, Elwin Ransom (Fictitious character), Open Library Staff Picks, Life on other planets
Dr. Ransom is ordered to Perelandra by the supreme being, and there he finds a Garden of Eden.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- J. Lane, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Minotauro
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- English, Spanish, Polish
- ISBN
- 9788845910982
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“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.”
Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
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