The Magician's Nephew
Digory and Polly witness Aslan's creation of Narnia.
The Magician's Nephew is a portal fantasy novel by British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1955 by The Bodley Head. It is the sixth published of the seven Chronicles of Narnia novels, but appears as the first volume in recent editions sequenced in the story's chronological order. A prequel to the series, it tells of the creation of the Narnia world by Aslan the lion, 1000 years before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Quick Facts
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Illustrator
- Pauline Baynes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Series
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Release number
- 6
- Subject
- The creation of Narnia
- Genre
- Children's fantasy novel, Christian literature
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Background
In 1900 two London children, Digory and Polly, are sent between worlds by the magic rings of Digory's Uncle Andrew. In the "Wood between the Worlds" each pool leads to a separate universe; in the desolate world of Charn, Digory rings a bell that awakens the witch-queen Jadis, who had killed every living thing there. The novel explains the origin of foreign elements in Narnia: the lamp-post, the White Witch, and a human king and queen.
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