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Out of the Silent Planet

Out of the Silent Planet

C. S. Lewis

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1938

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Philologist Elwin Ransom, on a walking tour of the English countryside, falls in with some slightly shady characters from his old University and wakes up suddenly to find himself naked in a metal ball in the middle of the light-filled heavens, on his way to a world called by its natives Malacandra, where he will learn why the other inhabitants of the solar system call our world Thulcandra... the Silent Planet.

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C. S. Lewis

Before there was a wardrobe that opened into another world, there was a quiet boy in Belfast who filled his notebooks with imaginary creatures and fantastical realms. C. S. Lewis—known to friends as Jack—never outgrew the wonder of childhood storytelling. Instead, he transformed it into one of the most beloved and…

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