The Great Divorce

Lewis's classic allegorical tale about a bus that travels from hell to heaven is an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, and grace and judgement.?

In this rich tale, there is a bus. Anyone living in the ghostly, perpetually-dripping realm can take the bus to someplace brilliant and beautiful. But in the end, most choose to return to the grey world, full of excuses, fears, or vices they cannot stand to lose.

In The Great Divorce Lewis reveals truth with a new understanding and highlights ways people can improve, he urges everyone to recognize personal flaws and to take accountability for the situations you are part of, and he discusses how we as a society need to be self-satisfying.

"Much deserves to be quoted . . . attractive imagery, amusing satire, exciting speculations . . . Lewis rouses curiosity about life after death only to sharpen awareness of this world."-- Guardian

It is in this work that he first presents the revolutionary idea that the doors in hell are locked in the inside. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis's The Great Divorce will change the way we think about good and evil.?

“'Much deserves to be quoted... attractive imagery, amusing satire, exciting speculations... Lewis rouses curiosity about life after death only to sharpen awareness of this world.' (Guardian)”

"Much deserves to be quoted... attractive imagery, amusing satire, exciting speculations... Lewis rouses curiosity about life after death only to sharpen awareness of this world." -- Guardian

"Where would the Christian thinker be without Lewis? He is pivotal." -- Jan Karon, author of the bestselling series The Mitford Years

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales m�s importantes del siglo veinte y podr�a decirse que fue el escritor cristiano m�s influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempe�� hasta que se jubil�. Sus contribuciones a la cr�tica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fant�stica y teolog�a popular le trajeron fama y aclamaci�n a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribi� m�s de treinta libros, lo cual le permiti� alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras a�n atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada a�o. Sus m�s distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Cr�nicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.

C. S. Lewis's dazzling allegory about Heaven and Hell--and the chasm fixed between them--is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, where we discover that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly afternoon in Hell and embarks on an incredible voyage to Heaven. Anyone in Hell is invited on board, and anyone may remain in Heaven if he or she so chooses. But do we really want to live in Heaven? This powerful, exquisitely written fantasy is one of C. S. Lewis's most enduring works of fiction and a profound meditation on good and evil and on what God really offers us.

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