System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 78588 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
Performer |
Read by Geoffrey Howard. |
Summary |
Out of the silent planet is the first novel from the Cosmic Trilogy, considered to be C.S. Lewis's chief contribution to the science fiction genre. The trilogy concerns Dr. Ransom, a linguist, who, like Christ, was offered a ransom for mankind. The first two novels are planetary romances with elements of medieval mythology. Each planet is seen as having a tutelary spirit; those of the other planets are both good and accessible, while that of Earth is fallen, twisted and not known directly by most humans. The story is powerfully imagined, and the effects of lesser gravity on Martian plant and animal life is vividly rendered. |
Subject |
Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Life on other planets -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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College teachers -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Good and evil -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Philologists -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Linguists -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Added Author |
Howard, Geoffrey, 1936-
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ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
Standard No. |
9780786198085 |
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