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C.S. Lewis
1945
Religious Text
Allegory
Although unnamed, the narrator is implied to be C.S. Lewis, who is writing about a dream he had.
The book was originally published in serial form in The Guardian over the course of 1944 and 1945. The title The Great Divorce references William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Stage productions have used the title The Great Divorce.
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