The Great Divorce is a work of fantasy by C. S. Lewis that portrays Christian perceptions of the life after death allegorically, specifically one individual's journey from hell/purgatory ("the grey town") to heaven and salvation. It is complementary to Lewis' earlier book The Screwtape Letters, which portrays an individual still in life being subjected to demonic mental manipulation in order to secure him for hell.
The working title was Who Goes ...
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The Great Divorce is a work of fantasy by C. S. Lewis that portrays Christian perceptions of the life after death allegorically, specifically one individual's journey from hell/purgatory ("the grey town") to heaven and salvation. It is complementary to Lewis' earlier book The Screwtape Letters, which portrays an individual still in life being subjected to demonic mental manipulation in order to secure him for hell.
The working title was Who Goes Home? but the real name was changed at the publisher's insistence. The title refers to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Great Divorce was first printed as a serial in a religious publication called The Guardian (not connected in any way to the modern British newspaper of the same name) in 1944 and 1945, and soon thereafter in book form.
The Great Divorce is speculative fiction frankly presented as an allegory and the specific details of the fantasy do not tally with the beliefs of any known church nor did Lewis regard it as...
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