The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four children step through a wardrobe into a Narnia held in perpetual winter.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a portal fantasy novel by British author C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of the seven Chronicles of Narnia novels, though recent editions sequenced by the stories' internal chronology mark it as volume two. Four English children evacuated from London find Narnia, ruled by the evil White Witch, through a wardrobe; the lion Aslan gives his life to save one of them, rises from the dead, vanquishes the White Witch and crowns the children Kings and Queens of Narnia.
Quick Facts
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Illustrator
- Pauline Baynes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Series
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Release number
- 1
- Genre
- Children's fantasy, Christian literature
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
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Background
The Pevensie children are evacuated from London in 1940 to the country house of Professor Digory Kirke, where the youngest, Lucy, enters a wardrobe and meets the faun Tumnus. Edmund follows her, meets the White Witch, who keeps the land in perpetual winter, and is won over with Turkish delight. Lewis wrote the book for, and dedicated it to, his goddaughter Lucy Barfield, daughter of his friend Owen Barfield; in 2003 it ranked ninth on the BBC's The Big Read poll.
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