Comprising The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician's Nephew;The Last Battle
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
The Chronicles of Narnia Comprising The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician's Nephew;The Last Battle
Bles, Bodley Head, 1950.
Seven volumes, all first editions, all recently rebound in scarlet half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to the spine and all edges gilt. Colour frontispieces to the first two volumes and black and white frontispieces to the next three volumes as well as black and white drawings throughout all of the volumes, all by Pauline Baynes. Pictorial map endpapers retained were relevant (vols II-V). A handsome set, housed in a custom made slipcase.
The author's most famous work and a landmark series of children's fiction. The inspiration for this book came in 1939 with some evacuated children staying at The Kilns. One of them showed an interest in an old wardrobe and asked if she might go inside it to see if there were anything behind it. Either the girl or Lewis may have been influenced by Edith Nesbit's The Aunt and Abel, in which a magic world is entered via a wardrobe in a spare room. Certainly, Lewis had enjoyed Nesbit's books as a child.
"From the very beginning, despite all the reviewers' apprehensions, children loved the Narnia stories... More than any stories that I can think of, they appeal to all sorts of children. It is easy to find children who are left cold by Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows; it is rare to find those who enjoy reading yet are not delighted by the Narnia stories." (George Sayer - Jack, C. S. Lewis and His Times)
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