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The Great Divorce

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C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An bizarre meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. The use of his bizarre descriptive powers, Lewis’ The Great Divorce will change the way we consider good and evil. 

The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis’s Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by means of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy creator George MacDonald; and upon boarding a bus in a nondescript neighborhood, the narrator is taken to Heaven and Hell. The book’s primary message is presented with almost oblique tidiness–“There are only two kinds of people in spite of everything: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in spite of everything, ‘Thy will be done.'” Then again, the narrator’s descriptions of sin and temptation will hit rather close to home for many readers. Lewis has a genius for describing the intricacies of vanity and self-deception, and this book is tremendously persistent in forcing its reader to believe the ultimate consequences of on a regular basis pettiness. –Michael Joseph Gross


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