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    The Great Divorce

     

    The Great Divorce


    The Great Divorce

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    Binding: Hardcover
    EAN: 9780061774195
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 0061774197
    Item Dimensions: 7484057582
    Label: HarperOne
    Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
    Manufacturer: HarperOne
    Number Of Items: 1
    Number Of Pages: 160
    Publication Date: March 03, 2009
    Publisher: HarperOne
    Release Date: March 03, 2009
    Studio: HarperOne




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    What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to?



    In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis's revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In Lewis's own words, "If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell."



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    The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer George MacDonald; and upon boarding a bus in a nondescript neighborhood, the narrator is taken to Heaven and Hell. The book's primary message is presented with almost oblique tidiness--"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" However, the narrator's descriptions of sin and temptation will hit quite close to home for many readers. Lewis has a genius for describing the intricacies of vanity and self-deception, and this book is tremendously persistent in forcing its reader to consider the ultimate consequences of everyday pettiness. --Michael Joseph Gross



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