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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- 186 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1950
- 157 editions
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1 About this book
During the Second World War four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, are sent from London to a professor's large house in the country. Lucy, the youngest, steps into a wardrobe in a spare room and comes out in Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures where the White Witch has made it always winter. When her brothers and sister follow her, the four are drawn into the struggle against the Witch, and they hear that Aslan, the great lion, is on his way back. First published in 1950, this was the first of C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia to be written; recent editions number it second, after The Magician's Nephew.
- Fantasy & Magic
- Adventure
- Classics
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Magic
- Animals
- Children's stories
2 What to expect
A short children's fantasy: four wartime evacuees find a doorway in a wardrobe to Narnia, a land of talking animals held in endless winter by a witch. It is a tale of courage, betrayal and forgiveness, with a Christian allegory that some will notice and others can ignore. The telling is warm and direct, in an old-fashioned storyteller's voice, and it reads aloud well.
Good for readers who want: classic children's fantasy, a short book to read aloud, and good against evil.
3 About C. S. Lewis
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by C. S. Lewis
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