The Chronicles of Narnia
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About the books
First work in the series, first edition• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
• Prince Caspian (1951)
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
• The Silver Chair (1953)
• The Horse and His Boy (1954)
• The Magician's Nephew (1955)
• The Last Battle (1956)
The author
C.S. Lewis, England
First publications
1950–1956
Literature form
Novel series
Genres
Fantasy fiction, children's literature
Writing language
English
Notable lines
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy.
— First line, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been—if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you—you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
— The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
— The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen.
— The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
This is where dreams—dreams, do you understand—come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
— The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
— The Magician's Nephew
It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
— The Silver Chair
And that is the very end of the adventures of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.
— Last lines, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
— Last line, The Last Battle
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