Great Divorce review summary

The Great Divorce:

The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer 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 the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" However, the narrator's descriptions of sin and temptation will hit quite 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 consider the ultimate consequences of everyday pettiness. --Michael Joseph Gross

Price: $10.95
Published by HarperSanFrancisco on 2001-02.

Average rating (150 reviews):

Rating: 9.0

Recent reviews:

Reviewed by anonymous on 2005-10-21: This week in class we read The Great Divorce. It's a great book and if you haven't read it... just... go read it.

The book is about a bus that goes from hell to heaven. People from hell can get (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2005-10-17: Lewis' imagination runs wild in this book. He sees the reality of Hell as a place where people choose to go, and Heaven as another possible choice. Through encounters with several spirits and help from his teacher, George MacDonald, Lewis learns (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2005-09-12: As C.S. Lewis' books go I think that this is not his best book by far. I would recommend reading some of his other works before this because if I had not of known of his amazing writing I would have (read more ...)
Rating: 6.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2005-09-10: In this brilliant work of fiction, C.S. Lewis brings amazing clarity and light to universal truths that we can all identify with, but few of us ever fully grasp. I have gained a whole new perspective on a question that has, (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2005-09-01: This is one of my favorite books of all time. I've bought and read it many times over the past 30+ years. I do have to keep buying copies though, because I love it so much that I have to share (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0