The Chronicles of Narnia is the collective name for C.S. Lewis’ seven books relating the history of the World of Narnia, published between 1949-1954. They are considered a classic in children literature. The name Narnia is based on Narni, Italy, written in Latin as Narnia
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Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician’s Nephew
The Last Battle
The World of Narnia or the Narnian World was a world that existed outside our own world, yet was accessible anywhere from Earth at any unexpected time, except for a guaranteed access from the Wood Between the Worlds. The world’s namesake is the major country of Narnia within it, but it also contained other nations and lands, including Archenland, Calormen, the Conglomeration of Nations, Ettinsmoor, the Great Desert, the Unnamed Tundra, the Unknown Land, the Southern Waste, Telmar, the Western Wild, the Wild Lands of the North and the Witch Country.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was written by C. S. Lewis and published in 1950. It presents the story of four ordinary children – Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie who are sent to stay with a kind professor. 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 the beautiful but evil White Witch, who has held the country in eternal winter for a hundred years.
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The Author (1898-1963)
C. S. Lewis foundation “Lay before God what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” – C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 � 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a British[1] novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is well known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at the age of 32 Lewis returned to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.
In 1956 he married the American writer Joy Gresham, 17 years his junior, who died four years later of cancer at the age of 45. Lewis died three years after his wife, as the result of renal failure. His death came one week before his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was minimal, as he died on 22 November 1963 the same day that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the same day another famous author, Aldous Huxley, died.