The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis Most of C. S. Lewis' writings are better known than The Great Divorce (107 pgs, 1945). It's a short little allegory that imagines what heaven and hell might be like. As Lewis himself notes in the preface, though, the moral of the story is not so much to give description of those places, but to show how humans might actually reject heaven and instead choose hell (which he imagines as simply a mundane, shallow, lonely existence rather than being a place of everlasting fire and torture).