The Great Divorce
Paperback – Deckle Edge, February 6, 2001
HarperCollins · Paperback · April 21, 2015
The Timeless Novel About a Bus Ride from Hell to Heaven In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory.
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- Who it’s for
- A slim, reflective piece for short reads and long afterthoughts.
- Themes
- good vs evil, grace and judgment, afterlife
- Pacing
- Reflective
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The Timeless Novel About a Bus Ride from Hell to Heaven 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 a 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.
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Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis’s The Great Divorce will change the way we think about good and evil.
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A slim, reflective piece for short reads and long afterthoughts.
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- C. S. Lewis in a compact, symbolic mode
- A quick dip into spiritual questions
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- Allegorical Christian framing
- Gentle, idea-forward reading
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| Christian Allegory | 95% |
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| Faith & Inspiration | 68% |
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- Faith & Inspiration
- Modern Philosophy
- History of Psychology
- Spiritual Growth
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- Christian Afterlife
- Religion in the Arts
- History of Religion
- Spirituality
- Authors
- C. S. Lewis
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 21, 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- good vs evil · grace and judgment · afterlife
- Reading lane
- Faith & Inspiration