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Out of the silent planet / C.S. Lewis.
LIBRA PR6023.E926 O54 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character).
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- College teachers--Fiction.
- College teachers.
- Good and evil--Fiction.
- Good and evil.
- Philologists--Fiction.
- Philologists.
- Linguists--Fiction.
- Linguists.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner trade papaerback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2003.
- Summary:
- Dr. Ransom, a noted philologist, is kidnapped and flown by spaceship to Malacandra (Mars) where he flees his human captors and establishes communication with the planet's extraordinary inhabitants. What he learns galvanizes his attempt to return to Earth with a message of great urgency.
- Notes:
- "First in the celebrated space trilogy"--[P. 1] cover.
- Previously published: New York : Scribner Classics, c1996.
- Cover illustration by Kinuko Craft.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy 1 is 15th printing. Copy 2 20th printing.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 25359
- ISBN:
- 0684833646
- 9780684833644
- 0743234901
- 9780743234900
- OCLC:
- 52171114
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