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Out of the Silent Planet (Reprint) Hardcover - 1998
by C. S. Lewis
About this book
Out Of the Silent Planet is the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy. Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and led to a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors plot to plunder the planet's treasures and to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures that reside there. Ransom discovers he has come from the 'silent planet', Earth, a tragic story that is known throughout the universe.
First Edition Identification
The novel was first published in 1938 by John Lane, then published by The Macmillan Company in 1943.
Details
- Title Out of the Silent Planet (Reprint)
- Author C. S. Lewis
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 182
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yestermorrow
- Date 1998-08
- ISBN 9781567230710 / 1567230717
- Reading level 1020
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC