by C.S. Lewis

THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTHby LewisTHE AUTHORC live Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland; his father was alawyer and his mother a mathematician. She died when Lewis was nine, and the trauma eventuallydrove him to atheism in his teens. He read voraciously from his youth and began writing at an earlyage. He served briefly in World War I and graduated from Oxford in 1923. He returned to Oxfordto teach English at Magdalen College (1925-1954), then moved to Cambridge as Professor ofMedieval and Renaissance Literature (1954-1963).

Letters, 1942; Mere Christianity, 1943; The Abolition of Man, 1943; The Great Divorce, 1945; Miracles, 1947; and God in the Dock, published in 1970), along with literary criticism and essays on a variety of other topics. That Hideous Strength (1945) was the final novel in Lewis’ Space Trilogy, and the only one of the three to take place entirely on earth.

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