Perelandra is a planet of pleasure, an unearthly, misty world of strange desires, sweet smells, and delicious tastes, where beasts are friendly and naked beauty is unashamed, a new Garden of Eden, where the story of the oldest temptation is enacted in an intriguingly new way. Here, in the second part of the trilogy, Dr. Ransom’s adventures continue against the backdrop of a religious allegory that, while it may seem quaint in its treatment of women today, nonetheless shows the capability of science to be an evil force tempting a ruler away from the path that has produced a paradisiacal kingdom.
What would happen if God created a new Garden of Eden? What if he sent a human to intervene in the tempter's plan? First published in 1938, PERELANDRA remains fresh into the next millennium. In a story that easily stands on its own, C.S. Lewis's Dr. Ransom travels to Venus and nearly loses his life in his fight with the evil one. Geoffrey Howard's skilled narration keeps the listener riveted. His scholarly handling of the text minimizes characterization, while easily distinguishing the players. Howard's respect for the subject matter equals Lewis's own and entices the listener to address serious questions of temptation and morality. R.P.L. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Known as Jack from childhood, he developed an imaginative gift for storytelling at an early age. He was educated at Cherbourg House and Malvern College in England. He completed his schooling under the private tuition of his father’s retired headmaster living in Great Bookham, Surrey. From there he went on to Oxford. From 1955-1963 he was professor of medieval and renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His conversion from atheism to Christian belief in 1931 resulted in a flow of outstanding theological books that championed Christian faith and made him famous in his own lifetime, but it was his fantasy books for children, The Chronicles of Narnia, that he became best known for.
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