The Tortured Planet [Avon T-211] (Original Title: That Hideous Strength)
by Lewis, C. S
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
575 Madison Avenue - New York 22, N. Y.: Avon Publications , 1946. 1946 at copyright page; no other dates. Specially abridged by Clive Staples Lewis; many appreciate this heightened and more direct format of his dystopic tale. Classic Avon paperback #T-211 with cosmically colorful cover art on black background; yellow on spine titles on green; and blood red tinted 'satellites' on black at back cover. Pages near fine; no writing. Orangish text block at all sides. Bind square. Well preserved w/moderate shelf wear. A near fine rarity. Third in the technocratic science fiction dystopian series; preceded by: "Out of the Silent Planet", and "Perelandra". The Tortured Planet, or, That Hideous Strength in extended form, is C. S. Lewis' science fiction masterpiece of a super race dedicated to evil! The Master Plan is a technocratic totalitarian world with science on the rampage! The next step in 'evolution' - a new race endowed with eternal life-giving energy in hope of side-stepping their fate. "From now on, every human being is a candidate for this new species - or its slave - or perhaps its food!" An immoral and diabolic army of 'scientists' in white lab coats, possessed with the ultimate secret of science, planning to use it to subjugate the human race and re-condition it in to a society of ordered, systematic, total sin! "In his usual polished prose, C. S. Lewis creates an elaborate and absurd picture of a war between morality and deviltry." - -The New Yorker. Two pages at back of adverts for other sci-fi titles from Avon. Printed in the U. S. A. 254 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
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- Title
- The Tortured Planet [Avon T-211] (Original Title: That Hideous Strength)
- Author
- Lewis, C. S
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Avon Publications
- Place of Publication
- 575 Madison Avenue - New York 22, N. Y.
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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