Fort Morgan Public Library

The second book in Lewis science fiction trilogy. Sequel to Out of the silent planet. Followed by The hideous strength.

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 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. For the trilogy's central figure,...

Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld despairs over an academic rival's undeserved acclaim and stumbles into a haphazard romance with a charming widow before a mountaineering accident catapults him into unwanted fame.

A sharp, sophisticated fantasy, this second book in Lewis's science fiction trilogy deals with an old problem -- temptation -- in a new world -- Perelandra (Venus).

A biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the two eighteenth-century brothers who collected the fairy tales and legends of the German people.

Contains primary source material.

Provides an account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany as recorded between 1933 and 1941 in the secret diaries of historian Victor Klemperer, a Dresden Jew and World War I veteran.

Peter Mark Roget--polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado--was a complicated man. He was a scholar obsessed with his work, yet he had an allure that endeared him to his contemporaries--not to mention a host of female admirers. But most notably, he made lists. Roget longed for order in his chaotic world. His father's premature death and the mental illness of his mother and sister threatened to plunge him into his own madness. And so, at the age of...