The Great Divorce
The Great Divorce, a novel by British author C.S. Lewis, explores his concept of purgatory. The ideas presented in the novel draw upon the writings of St. Augustine, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, and George MacDonald. According to Dante Alighieri, C.S. Lewis, and others, purgatory represents a spiritual…