{"product_id":"that-hideous-strength-by-lewis-9780743234924","title":"That Hideous Strength","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which \u003ci\u003eThat Hideous Strength\u003c\/i\u003e is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e and George Orwell's \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes \u003ci\u003eOut of the Silent Planet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePerelandra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThat Hideous Strength\u003c\/i\u003e concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in \u003ci\u003eOut of the Silent Planet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePerelandra\u003c\/i\u003e are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWord is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organisation is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to \"recondition\" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643244593388,"sku":"9780743234924","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/74f4fd95d17d2a2e092c1e13d2a34fbf.jpg?v=1779168397","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/that-hideous-strength-by-lewis-9780743234924","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}