The story is set in 1900, when Digory was a 12-year-old boy.
As a result, on 2 September 1939, three school girls named Margaret, Mary and Katherine came to live at The Kilns in Risinghurst, Lewis's home three miles east of Oxford city centre.
The children become kings and queens of this new-found land and establish the Golden Age of Narnia, leaving a legacy to be rediscovered in later books. ===Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)=== Completed after Christmas 1949 and published on 15 October 1951, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia tells the story of the Pevensie children's second trip to Narnia, a year after their first.
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted for radio, television, the stage, film and computer games.
The first edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was released in London on 16 October 1950.
The children set out once again to save Narnia. ===The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)=== Written between January and February 1950 and published on 15 September 1952, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader sees Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their priggish cousin, Eustace Scrubb, return to Narnia, three years after their last departure.
Eustace and Jill, with the help of Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, face danger and betrayal on their quest to find Rilian. ===The Horse and His Boy (1954)=== Begun in March and completed at the end of July 1950, The Horse and His Boy was published on 6 September 1954.
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The series was first referred to as The Chronicles of Narnia by fellow children's author Roger Lancelyn Green in March 1951, after he had read and discussed with Lewis his recently completed fourth book The Silver Chair, originally entitled Night under Narnia. Lewis described the origin of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in an essay entitled "It All Began with a Picture": The Lion all began with a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood.
The children become kings and queens of this new-found land and establish the Golden Age of Narnia, leaving a legacy to be rediscovered in later books. ===Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)=== Completed after Christmas 1949 and published on 15 October 1951, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia tells the story of the Pevensie children's second trip to Narnia, a year after their first.
This perilous journey brings them face to face with many wonders and dangers as they sail toward Aslan's country at the edge of the world. ===The Silver Chair (1953)=== Completed at the beginning of March 1951 and published 7 September 1953, The Silver Chair is the first Narnia book not involving the Pevensie children, focusing instead on Eustace.
The children set out once again to save Narnia. ===The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)=== Written between January and February 1950 and published on 15 September 1952, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader sees Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their priggish cousin, Eustace Scrubb, return to Narnia, three years after their last departure.
This perilous journey brings them face to face with many wonders and dangers as they sail toward Aslan's country at the edge of the world. ===The Silver Chair (1953)=== Completed at the beginning of March 1951 and published 7 September 1953, The Silver Chair is the first Narnia book not involving the Pevensie children, focusing instead on Eustace.
He is a middle-aged professor by the time he hosts the Pevensie children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 40 years later. ===The Last Battle (1956)=== Completed in March 1953 and published 4 September 1956, The Last Battle chronicles the end of the world of Narnia.
The Magician's Nephew, the penultimate book to be published, but the last to be written, was completed in 1954.
Eustace and Jill, with the help of Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, face danger and betrayal on their quest to find Rilian. ===The Horse and His Boy (1954)=== Begun in March and completed at the end of July 1950, The Horse and His Boy was published on 6 September 1954.
Along the way they meet Aravis and her talking horse Hwin, who are also fleeing to Narnia. ===The Magician's Nephew (1955)=== Completed in February 1954 and published by Bodley Head in London on 2 May 1955, The Magician's Nephew serves as a prequel and presents Narnia's origin story: how Aslan created the world and how evil first entered it.
The last two books (The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle) were published in the United Kingdom originally by The Bodley Head in 1955 and 1956. In the United States, the publication rights were first owned by Macmillan Publishers, and later by HarperCollins.
Along the way they meet Aravis and her talking horse Hwin, who are also fleeing to Narnia. ===The Magician's Nephew (1955)=== Completed in February 1954 and published by Bodley Head in London on 2 May 1955, The Magician's Nephew serves as a prequel and presents Narnia's origin story: how Aslan created the world and how evil first entered it.
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted for radio, television, the stage, film and computer games.
Lewis was awarded the 1956 Carnegie Medal for The Last Battle, the final book in the saga.
Narnia — or 'Narni' in Italian — is in Umbria, halfway between Rome and Assisi. ==Publication history== The Chronicles of Narnia's seven books have been in continuous publication since 1956, selling over 100 million copies in 47 languages and with editions in Braille. The first five books were originally published in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Bles.
The last two books (The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle) were published in the United Kingdom originally by The Bodley Head in 1955 and 1956. In the United States, the publication rights were first owned by Macmillan Publishers, and later by HarperCollins.
He is a middle-aged professor by the time he hosts the Pevensie children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 40 years later. ===The Last Battle (1956)=== Completed in March 1953 and published 4 September 1956, The Last Battle chronicles the end of the world of Narnia.
To make the case for the internal chronological order, Lewis's stepson, Douglas Gresham, quoted Lewis's 1957 reply to a letter from an American fan who was having an argument with his mother about the order: I think I agree with your [chronological] order for reading the books more than with your mother's.
In answering a letter with a question posed by a child in 1957, asking if the Narnia series could please be on television, C.
Asked by a child in 1958 if he would please write another book entitled "Susan of Narnia" so that the entire Pevensie family would be reunited, C.
In 1976, the scholar Susan Cornell Poskanzer praised Lewis for his "strangely powerful fantasies".
Comprising ten episodes of thirty minutes each, the screenplay was written by Trevor Preston, and directed by Helen Standage. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was adapted again in 1979, this time as an animated cartoon co-produced by Bill Meléndez and the Children's Television Workshop, with a screenplay by David D.
Mark Gordon, Douglas Gresham and Vincent Sieber will serve as executive producers. ===Radio=== A critically acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation was produced in the 1980s, starring Maurice Denham as Professor Kirke.
Recordings of the entire adaptation were released on compact disc between 1999 and 2003. ===Stage=== Many stage adaptations of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe have been produced over the years. In 1984, Vanessa Ford Productions presented The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at London's Westminster Theatre.
Connell. Between 1988 and 1990, the first four books (as published) were adapted by the BBC as three TV serials.
They were nominated for a total of 14 Emmy awards, including "Outstanding Children's Program", and a number of BAFTA awards including Best Children's Programme (Entertainment / Drama) in 1988, 1989 and 1990. On 3 October 2018, the C.S.
They were nominated for a total of 14 Emmy awards, including "Outstanding Children's Program", and a number of BAFTA awards including Best Children's Programme (Entertainment / Drama) in 1988, 1989 and 1990. On 3 October 2018, the C.S.
Lewis is explicitly acknowledged as an influence in the liner notes of the 1990 compact disc. During interviews, the primary creator of the Japanese anime and gaming series Digimon has said that he was inspired and influenced by The Chronicles of Narnia. ==Christian themes== Lewis had authored a number of works on Christian apologetics and other literature with Christian-based themes before writing the Narnia books.
Connell. Between 1988 and 1990, the first four books (as published) were adapted by the BBC as three TV serials.
They were nominated for a total of 14 Emmy awards, including "Outstanding Children's Program", and a number of BAFTA awards including Best Children's Programme (Entertainment / Drama) in 1988, 1989 and 1990. On 3 October 2018, the C.S.
As noted below (see Reading order), the first American publisher, Macmillan, numbered the books in publication sequence, whereas HarperCollins, at the suggestion of Lewis's stepson, opted to use the series' internal chronological order when they won the rights to it in 1994.
When HarperCollins took over the series rights in 1994, they adopted the internal chronological order.
The production was later revived at Westminster and The Royalty Theatre and went on tour until 1997.
Productions of other tales from The Chronicles were also staged, including The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1986), The Magician's Nephew (1988) and The Horse and His Boy (1990). In 1997, Trumpets Inc., a Filipino Christian theatre and musical production company, produced a musical rendition of "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" that Douglas Gresham, Lewis's stepson (and co-producer of the Walden Media film adaptations), has openly declared that he feels is the closest to Lewis's intent.
In the UK, BBC Audiobooks released both audio cassette and compact disc versions of the series. Between 1998 and 2002, Focus on the Family produced radio dramatisations of the entire series through its Radio Theatre programme.
The book and lyrics were written by Jaime del Mundo and Luna Inocian, while the music was composed by Lito Villareal. The Royal Shakespeare Company premiered The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1998.
Recordings of the entire adaptation were released on compact disc between 1999 and 2003. ===Stage=== Many stage adaptations of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe have been produced over the years. In 1984, Vanessa Ford Productions presented The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at London's Westminster Theatre.
In the UK, BBC Audiobooks released both audio cassette and compact disc versions of the series. Between 1998 and 2002, Focus on the Family produced radio dramatisations of the entire series through its Radio Theatre programme.
Recordings of the entire adaptation were released on compact disc between 1999 and 2003. ===Stage=== Many stage adaptations of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe have been produced over the years. In 1984, Vanessa Ford Productions presented The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at London's Westminster Theatre.
I'm not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published. In the 2005 HarperCollins adult editions of the books, the publisher cites this letter to assert Lewis's preference for the numbering they adopted by including this notice on the copyright page: Although The Magician's Nephew was written several years after C.
Released in December 2005, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was produced by Walden Media, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and directed by Andrew Adamson, with a screenplay by Ann Peacock, Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus. The second novel adapted was Prince Caspian.
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Alan Jacobs, an English professor at Wheaton College, asserts that Lucy is the most admirable of the human characters and that generally the girls come off better than the boys throughout the series (Jacobs, 2008: 259).
Released in 2008, it was co-produced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures, co-written and directed by Andrew Adamson, with Screenwriters including Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. In December 2008, Disney pulled out of financing the remainder of the Chronicles of Narnia film series.
However, Walden Media and 20th Century Fox eventually co-produced The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was released in December 2010. In May 2012, producer Douglas Gresham confirmed that Walden Media's contract with the C.S.
However, Walden Media and 20th Century Fox eventually co-produced The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was released in December 2010. In May 2012, producer Douglas Gresham confirmed that Walden Media's contract with the C.S.
On 1 October 2013, it was announced that the C.S.
On 26 April 2017, Joe Johnston was hired to direct the film.
They were nominated for a total of 14 Emmy awards, including "Outstanding Children's Program", and a number of BAFTA awards including Best Children's Programme (Entertainment / Drama) in 1988, 1989 and 1990. On 3 October 2018, the C.S.
In October, Johnston said filming is expected to begin in late 2018.
In November 2018, these plans were halted because Netflix had begun developing adaptations of the entire series. ==See also== Outline of Narnia ==Notes== ==References== ==Further reading== ==External links== C.
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