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That Hideous Strength

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's

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“Their own strength has betrayed them. They have...pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Not till then did his controllers allow him to suspect that death itself might not after all cure the illusion of being a soul—nay, might prove the entry into a world where that illusion raged infinite and unchecked. Escape for the soul, if not for the body, was offered him. He became able to know (…”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“"They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience."”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“"The cardinal difficulty," said MacPhee, "in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for th…”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com