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	• The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis HarperCollins, 2004 - 784 pages average customer review:based on 132 reviews view larger image
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The Chronicles of Narnia

A wonderful book, which has been enjoyed by all of our family for many years.

The Complete Biblical text of NARNIA ... sorta

C. S. LEWIS' Allegorical children's fiction stories from his creation called the land of NARNIA (as the small town of Castle Rock IS to Stephen King) are collected in this here- a complete presentation of the Chronicles of Narnia all in one volume, sequenced according to the authors' intended order and includes the original illustrations by Pauline Baynes.

Like a good atheist turned christian that he is, Mr. Clive "Jack" S. Lewis- most likely driven by his good Lord's words to 'suffer the little children to come unto Him' wrote these fantastic tales from another dimension called the Land of Narnia, wherein a number of children have discovered and have grown along in the story to bring a succession of other characters both in the world of Narnia and those that stumble to discover the other world of Narnia - as told in a series of seven tales commenced with THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, that's now made popular to another generation of audiences by being made into a Motion Picture by the team of the Disney movie production- which serves as a modern day allegory about Christ's purpose of coming down to earth represented by the character of the great mystical lion named Aslan. The metaphor regarding christian ideologies go much further with the other books in the series, thus as somewhere around the book we found a statement from the character of Aslan "The reason why you met me here is for you to know me in the real world" (or something like that) which obviously state the primary reason that motivated Lewis to write the stories- as an allegorical modern day parable of sorts that dabble well with Christian ideals and stories that lay some parallel relevance to actual biblical records.

The Book's Contents:
1) THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW (1955) written just a year prior to the final installment in the series - this is the story that began the Chronicles, which in its appearance came as a 'prequel' of sorts to the whole series when it first appeared that I bet the moviemakers would be cashing in to issue the movie adaptation to this one in the same manner as to come around after several movie adaptations to the stories are already filmed.
For me this is the best among the lot, and my personal fave (quite a lot o'ring of relevance to the way things are going a few good bit for me in this story) and really juices up the reader as a perfect intro to the most popular installment in the series, and so what follows ...

2) THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (1950) the book that started it all when originally issued as published back in the early 50's. Perhaps the book would have been a stand-alone in that sense when Lewis first came up with the story. What introduced me to this classic when I was just a kid is through a then-new animated feature made by the creators of SESAME STREET -the factory of The Children's Television Workshop as I do recall, and it's quite a very good cartoon rendition of the story I should say, some should take a note of. And hence the stories of the series went.

3) THE HORSE AND HIS BOY (1954) Lewis'd seemed to have taken a breather before coming up with the origin story of Narnia (as presented on THE MAGICIAN's NEPHEW). This story which comes as a stand alone story of Narnia, is like an intermission, somewhat quite similarly with the Biblical records where we have sidelined accounts such as those of the account regarding the slave girl Ruth (who eventually became one of Jesus' very own ancestors/ as found in the genealogical records), and those of the prophet named Balaam found on one of the first five books of the Bible pertaining to the books of Moses (ie. Pentateuch) who turned hoodwinked. This story winds as one of the ancient legends along the lines in the stories on the Chronicles of Narnia.

4) PRINCE CASPIAN (1951) The very first installment of sequels to the books of Narnia. Here the kids from the TLTW&TW are drawn back into the world of Narnia and found that they are considered more as mere legends and thus they are not instantly perceived or believed as the Kings and Queens from Narnia's earliest times - as they are shifted back into being kids when they first left Narnia by the time when they were already grown men and women Royals in the realm of Narnia upon the end of TLTW&TW, that granted by the time difference of Narnia's realm into our world- thousands of years have already passed for Narnia when they got back.

5) THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (1952) Here we have two out of the four main characters from the first NARNIA book The Lion The Witch And the Wardrobe along with a cousin of theirs named Eustace, which is a story that continued on from the first sequel to appear - the book PRINCE CASPIAN; and in that respect we see a defect of sorts in the storyline regarding the elapsed timespan with the real world to those on the land of Narnia- if Lewis did not really intend a static inconsistency regarding the matter in the stories from the book would be the case. (Also reminds me of that case of the mysterious hanky, that is very well apparent in the film rendition of TLTW&TW. don't i win any no-prize for these .. ?)

6) THE SILVER CHAIR (1953) A sequel to the sequel of the first sequel in the series, I think this comes as the point of decline or rest in the book, although it too have its few magical moments. The title comes as a name derived by an Australian band, when prior to that a bunch of young church-going kids formed a band and called themselves as SIXPENSE NONE THE RICHER and had a title track to one of their first albums The Fatherless and The Widow -all after a line from a book by the same author C.S. LEWIS (seems there's nothing that ever comes as much as that original from Australia at all does it). Furthermore a line that I've spotted '...Lucy, fell...' (from the PRINCE CASPIAN book it is I guess, or TLTW&TW) might've been the very thing which inspired the certain movie makers who'd come up with that movie title as seen recently; whence the Dawn Treader is the name for the music copyright company of the institutionalized christian rock group - the now recently disbanded PETRA.
Hm, come to think of it - Lewis' NARNIA've also become as a playground for musicians to grab certain names from.
Btw, there's also a christian band called POOR OLD LU- a line taken from TLTW&TW.

7) THE LAST BATTLE (1956) The story which presented the-end-for-all-things in Narnia depicts a certain metaphor about the Islamic religion and its mortal foe - Christianity itself. Whence personally I have always taken the ground that the god which these certain Muslims worship is not the same God of Christianity- that is claimed otherwise by some particular speakers heard in commentaries from certain circles time and time again; this fiction of Lewis herald the similar stand that I have in the said matter in its own particular way. Hearken, we're not far from any great theological discussion when looking at these works of C.S. Lewis; but not as to encourage any hostile arguments though. Lewis is only trying to depict whatever ground he has taken for what things he tries to present in the allegory for the Chronicles of Narnia on its whole.
I do recall however that a tv sitcom from the eighties made a joke regarding the book's ending - 'twas THE GOLDEN GIRLS I think, wherein the dotaging character played by Estelle Getty went complaining about such a horrid ending for a children's book - which in that respect actually only laid flat and clear what C.S. LEWIS is getting at regarding the entire theme for the book: a metaphorical story carrying christian ideals presented in its storylines.
All in all, Lewis' stories in his NARNIA series did however turned out as one among the best literary classics of all time - long after one of the pioneering great christian literatures that have ever surfaced our midst, religious or not, in the literary arts - John Bunyan's THE PILGRIM's PROGRESS; and in that respect on the more leniently over the border side - also there's GULLIVERS' TRAVEL by Jonathan Swift.

Furthermore The Chronicles of Narnia definitely do deserve some repeated reads.

The book (which in this edition is unabridged, by the way) is also available on softcover (actually the one that I have), and is available in two covers (the other pictures the gorgeous White Queen Witch's pic in the film- as issued in conjunction along with the movie being part of the motion picture's merchandise materials) but it may be pretty hard to keep your copy minty bit on softbound - so, hence go for the hardcover edition if thou art willing to shed a few more bucks to the enlightenment of your wallet's lesser weight.

OVERALL RATING = 4 1/2+ out of 5 notches

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The chronicles of Narnia

Simply amazing. Never-ending thrills chapter after chapter. It will drive you and your imagination right along! Remember what you're reading though - that there's a message for you from Jesus Christ while you're reading this masterpiece.

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Narnia

I read the book The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I really like this book. It is full of adventure.

This is a story about four brothers and sisters, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. They are called "the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve". My favorite character in this story is Peter. Peter is the oldest of the children and he has to lead them on their adventure.

The adventure in this story starts when the kids go to the Professor's house to live with him. They went to live with him because their father was fighting in the War and their mother sent them to the country to keep them safe.

The part of the book I liked the most was the battle, because there are a lot of interesting animals that are part of the battle and Peter gets to lead this army. I liked this part the best because you got to see the good and bad in people.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes action, adventure and fantasy type of books. This book has all three. F.P.

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Chronicles of Narnia

I was a hard core science fiction fan for many years but Harry Potter converted me to fantasy. With the recent release of the movie, I decided to read the whole Narnia series. I must say I am totally enjoying it. This book is a beautiful edition for the price. The picture of Aslan, the Lion, on the cover is worth the price of the book! And Amazon can't be beat for quick and efficient service as well as afforable prices.

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