Name: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Rating: 3.996140977024314 (4483 reviews)
ISBN: 9789887739562

C.S.Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of four adventurous children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who have been evacuated to the English countryside in 1940 following the outbreak of World War II. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. Narnia is a charming, once peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, and giants. Unfortunately, it has been frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. The arrival of the children, with the return of the Great Lion Aslan , gives Narnia hope for liberation . . . but with a great sacrifice.

The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

C.S. Lewis

When this adaptation of C. S. Lewis's classic children's story opened at the RSC Stratford in November 1998, it received rave reviews and broke box office records. Four children are evacuated from London during the Blitz. While exploring the Professor's house, they stumble across the gateway to another world, and the adventure begins. The land of Narnia is under the spell of the wicked White Witch, and the four very quickly find themselves caught up in a deadly struggle between good and evil.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Andrew Hawkins

Read it with my daughter. Her first time reading. She is obsessed with it now. 

Molly M

i found the same audiobook on libby as i had on cd as a child and i’ve been listening to it by chapter to help me fall asleep for the past while :)

C. S. Lewis

The Magician's Nephew (paper-over-board) (Narnia)

Amna A.

Despite this book being a children's book, it was quite sweet. It felt like being in fourth grade all over again, and it has been a while since I've read something that exhausts your imagination as much as this book.

They open a door and enter a world

NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure begins. Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever.
--back cover

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

I loved this book. Quite heart warming. Maybe because I get flashbacks from 4th grade, when we used to reenact the Turkish delight scene over and over again just in order to eat more Turkish delight.

The Silver Chair

Sarah Sammis

My husband described The Silver Chair to me as the "book where the Narnia series jumped the shark" and I have to agree. It tries to capture the same sense of adventure and quest that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader' have but it falls short in that task. The scenes feel forced, the tone preachy and oft-times patronizing and the dialogue wooden.

Then there is Aslan who reappears and gives a preview of his role in The Last Battle. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aslan is a reluctant martyr. In this book he flaunts his omnipotency and makes thinly veiled threats of things to come to those who do not follow his "signs."

I realize that the Narnia books are Christian fantasy "to make them easily accessible to younger readers" but even as a child attending Sunday school I was put off by Aslan's threats and the narrator's sermons in these later books. Rereading this book now as an adult was a chore and save for a scene or two in the Deep Realm, I didn't enjoy the book.

C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. Prince Caspian is the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books.

Prince Caspian

Hannah DCamp

The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia)

Read 1: 4/25/2022-5/17/2022
Read 2: 4/22/2022-5/22/2022

When I read this the first time around, I wasn't as interested. Eustace was fine, but I didn't know Jill at all (and she's more the main character), and all the Pevensies were gone; Puddleglum reminded me of Gollum in my imagination, which meant I was kind of scared of him; and then they spend a good chunk of time underground in a creepy city with an evil witch lurking around. 

So yeah, I really remember not being a fan of this book.

I am thus SO HEKKIN GLAD that I read this again, holy cats. Even as an adult there was so much for me to take from this story, and Puddleglum is an absolute legend. I think we're actually the same person, which was by turns not a fantastic thing, and very encouraging.

In the first book of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis shows us how it all began -- the glorious birth of Narnia at the hand of its unforgettable King. It is followed by six more books that collectively tell the history of a world that has become as real as our own.

The Magician's Nephew

A very sweet beginning to one of my favorite stories! 

It‘s indeed the beginning of everything we will know about Narnia, how it will be found and created and also how one of the biggest villains this world knows will come into it. But also how we humans, the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve, find this other world during the path of a Forrest so enchanting and filled with many ponds. But we must choose wisely in which waters we will step and move.

The ending and how all will be connected with each other is very touching! 

And I am very excited to read the entire story during the next weeks.

Ann-Sophie

A very sweet beginning to one of my favorite stories! 

It‘s indeed the beginning of everything we will know about Narnia, how it will be found and created and also how one of the biggest villains this world knows will come into it. But also how we humans, the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve, find this other world during the path of a Forrest so enchanting and filled with many ponds. But we must choose wisely in which waters we will step and move.

The ending and how all will be connected with each other is very touching! 

And I am very excited to read the entire story during the next weeks.




The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Harper Classic (Chronicles of Narnia)

For the sake of it being a classic, it's an easy 5 stars. But for what it is at this age, reading a children's story before bed, it gets a 3.5. It's fun to dive into Narnia again, but you can tell it's written for those 20+ years the younger. 

The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

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