Out of the Silent Planet (American Publisher's Galley for the first American Edition)
by C. S. Lewis
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064729
- Title
- Out of the Silent Planet (American Publisher's Galley for the first American Edition)
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- American Publisher's Galley for
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- The Inklings, Mere Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Screwtape Letters
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