About this title: In "The Great Divorce", C.S. Lewis employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory, this time exploring the question of heaven and hell. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, the theologian introduces readers to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Collier Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780020868903ISBN:0020868901
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Audience: General/trade. Yellowed pages, bowed/bent but binding is intact-no writing read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2/6/2001
ISBN-13:9780060652951ISBN:0060652950
Description: Fine. 0060652950 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan and Co. Limited, New York, NY, U.S. A
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780684823768ISBN:0684823764
Description: Good. 125 pages, paper is toned, light crease front cover, otherwise tight & unmarked! Lewis' classic vision of the Afterworld, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060652951ISBN:0060652950
Description: Fine-Used in None as Issued jacket. / 9780060652951. Like new. Minimal shelfwear. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780020868903ISBN:0020868901
Description: Good + Tight spine, clean copy. Tan wraps, edges lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Text is unmarked, pages yellowed. 128 Pgs. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780684823768ISBN:0684823764
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, minor corner bump, pages beginning to age tone, and other light shopwear. Text is clean. read more
Edition: 16th
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1974
Description: Good- As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, corner crease upper right corner front cover, soiling to covers, 2 pink stains on the rear cover (look like smudged or smeared marker marks), pages age toning, and other light to moderate shopwear. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060652951ISBN:0060652950
Description: Very Good-Used in None as Issued jacket. / 0060652950. Very good. Minimal shelfwear. Front cover has a crease in bottom right hand corner and slight curl. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. read more
"I love this book. I love it even more on this second reading than I did after the first. After this second reading of it, the book has taken a place among my favorite books-next to the Bible, *Rose,* by Li-Young Lee, and *Dogmatics in Outline,* by Karl Barth. Augustine's *Confessions,* during the slow rereading I am now making of it, is quickly securing a claim for a place on this list as well
I will offer no literary analysis of *The Great Divorce*. Rather I will say simply that I reread it in order to feel grounded. I reread it because I felt I was floating aimlessly before I did, and because I know of no more appealing, joyous picture of "the real" than Lewis's heaven.
I would be curious to read this book not being a Christian. As a Christian reader, I find the book spiritually nourishing, but I can imagine that other readers, who may not share Christian convictions, could find it preachy or smug.
Nevertheless I find it utterly honest and human. It is a source of spiritual sustenance."
"Exegetes and expositors no doubt wish that Lewis would have been a more precise interpreter. Rationalists no doubt wish he would stick with explaining what is real. But I think Lewis' brilliance is his ability to use fantasy and mythology to speak of things more real than could properly be exposited or explained.
To read this book for facts about heaven and hell would be a mistake. To read this as an exposition of the afterlife, I think, would be a mistake. This book, I believe, is an exposition of the great truth: "He who loses his life, finds it." Lewis is illustrating real life, real love, and real happiness. And the key is "self-forgetfulness." Everyone who fails to enter heaven is the one who cannot help but be consumed with themselves - their ambition, their suffering, their rights, and so on. Everyone who enters, who becomes more real and experiences life more real than they could imagine, are those who come into the light to have their shame painfully exposed and lose themselves in the love for God and others.
Put down your self-help books! Your misery comes not because you have failed to consider yourselves. Your misery is not because you haven't attended properly to your own happiness. Your misery is because you have not lost yourself. You have not yet forgotten yourself."
"Like an artist with a brush can paint a masterpiece, Lewis with his pen could write a story like no other. This is his fictional vision of the afterlife, written in the first person as so many of his stories are, telling the story of the protagonist as he takes a bus ride from the Shadowlands into the tanglibly real outskirts of Heaven. There he runs into George MacDonald, who was a mentor of C.S. Lewis himself, and many values are revealed as MacDonald teaches the protagonist about Reality."
"This is easily one of the best books I've ever read in my life.
If you don't believe in heaven or hell you might not want to read this book. But if you do ..or think you do..this book will take vague, cloudy ideas and turn them into tangible concepts that will excite you.
"For a moment I could make out nothing distinctly. Then I saw, between me and the nearest bush, unmistakably solid but growing every moment solider, the upper arm and the shoulder of a man. Then, brighter still and stronger, the legs and hands. The neck and golden head materialised while I watched, and if my attention had not wavered I should have seen the actual completing of a man-an immense man, naked, not much smaller than the Angel. What distracted me was the fact that at the same moment something seemed to be happening to the Lizard. At first I thought the operation had failed. So far from dying, the creature was still struggling and even growing bigger as it struggled. And as it grew it changed. Its hinder parts grew rounder. The tail, still flickering, became a tail of hair that flickered between huge and glossy buttocks. Suddenly I started back, rubbing my eyes. What stood before me was the greatest stallion I have ever seen, silvery white but with mane and tail of gold. It was smooth and shining, rippled with swells of flesh and muscle, whinneying and stamping with its hoofs. At each stamp the land shook and the trees dindled.""
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