Sources
Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten (Charles F. Hall, author of "The Man Who Lived Backwards"). George MacDonald, whom Lewis utilizes as a character in the story, Dante, Prudentius and Jeremy Taylor are alluded to in the text of chapter 9.
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