Product Description

Over 50 years ago, C. S. Lewis created a land of wonder and enchantment called Narnia. Since then, over 60 million readers have taken their first steps into Narnia, discovering a world of magic and mystery. When Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent to stay with a kind professor who lives in the country, they can hardly imaging the extraordinary adventure that awaits them. It all begins one rainy summer day when the children explore the professor's rambling old house. When they come across a room with an old wardrobe in the corner, Lucy immediately opens the door and gets inside. To her amazement, she suddenly finds herself standing in the clearing of a wood on a winter afternoon, with snowflakes falling through the air. LUcy has found Narnia, a magical land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals -- and of the beautiful but evil White Witch, who has held the country in eternal winter for a hundred years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #862647 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 112 pages

Review
"The magic of C. S. Lewis's parallel universe never fades." The Times

About the Author
CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS was born in Belfast in 1898. As a child, he was fascinated by the fairy tales, myths and ancient legends recounted to him by his Irish nurse. The image of a faun carrying parcels and an umbrella in a snowy wood came to him when he was sixteen. However, it was not until many years later as a professor at Cambridge University, that the faun was joined by an evil queen and a magnificent lion. Their story became The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, one of the best loved books of all time. Six further Chronicles of Narnia followed and the final title, The Last Battle, published in 1956, was awarded the highest mark of excellence in children's literature -- the prestigious Carnegie Award.

Customer Reviews

fantastic
this book is absolutly amazing, it uses such great imagary and the reader gets to know each character individually!!!

i read this book when i was a child and agian now i am 18 and it still makes me so excited reading it in anticipation of what is to come next!!! there is a strong christian theme in the text which i cuould only pick up on at this age and the land its self is described so majically!!!

i absolutely love this book, it is easy to read and i personally think it is for any ages, it keeps the reader drawn into what is goin on hopeing that good wins over bad!!!

i love it

Difficult transition of childhood to adulthood
An important landmark in children's literature, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, has as much significance today as it every did. The spiritual personification of Azlan as God is one of Lewis' deeper metaphores which resinates through all the Narnia series. The symbolic desensitisation of Peter, John, Susan, and Lucy is a perfect allegory for loss of innocence in the painfull transistion from childhood to adulthood... also really entertaining! Lewis really captures the imaginations of the magicaly spirited child psyche. TJ xxxxx