Ransom arrives in Venus after a quick journey through inter-planetary space. The remainder of the story is told from Ransom's point of view, with Lewis acting as interlocutor and occasional commentator. He returns to Earth over a year later and is met by Lewis and another friend, then recounts his experiences. Ransom is transported in a casket-like vessel which is seemingly made of ice and contains only himself, unclothed, as Oyarsa tells him clothes are unnecessary on Venus. Ransom explains to Lewis that he (Ransom) is to travel to Perelandra ( Venus), where he is to counter some kind of attack - details not yet specified - to be launched by Earth's Black Archon ( Satan). Ransom summons narrator-Lewis to his country home. Philologist Elwin Ransom, some years after his return from Mars at the end of Out of the Silent Planet, receives a new mission from the Oyarsa (the angelic ruler) of Mars.

Lewis, set on the planet of Perelandra, or Venus. Ransom is recruited by the denizens of Malacandra, befriended in Out of the Silent Planet, to rescue the edenic planet Perelandra and its peace-loving populace from a terrible threat: a malevolent being from another world who strives to create a new world order, and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so.Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Namia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings.

Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. First edition of the second novel in Lewis’ classic trilogy.

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