Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia): Discover where the magic began in this illustrated prequel to the children’s classics by C.S. Lewis: Book 1

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Lewis really writes an engaging fantasy tale that is surprising full of beautiful descriptions rather than nonstop action. I appreciate the world building in the book which I found pretty detailed for a children's book. I also like that I don't really know some of the characters well, but feel like the less important ones are gonna be showing up later on down the road. The Lion’s singing has brought forth the stars, the sun, and now grasses and trees. The Witch hates the music and flees the Lion’s presence, but the children long to meet him. Suddenly, countless animals of different kinds burst forth from the ground. The Lion, Aslan, walks among the animals and touches noses with certain ones. The chosen animals gather around him, and he breathes into them the ability to think and speak. Aslan charges these Talking Beasts with the care of those who don’t speak.

The name "Charn" suggests " charnel house," a repository for human skeletal remains. [3] :138 The hall of the figures of the rulers of Charn, inspired by the underground grotto of mummies in King Solomon's Mines, [4] [3] :139 shows a progression illustrating the decline and fall of the city and its world, reflecting a view of history described by G. K. Chesterton. [3] :138 The "deplorable word" is most likely a metaphor for weapons of mass destruction, which many feared would bring about the destruction of the world at the time when the novel was written. [3] :163 Lewis, C. S. (1966). "Different Tastes in Literature". In Walter Hooper (ed.). On Stories: and other essays on literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p.121. C. S. Lewis borrowed several elements for this book, and some of his other Narnia series, from another book, Story of the Amulet written by E. Nesbit in 1906. Jadis's arrival in London closely resembles the Queen of Babylon's accidental journey to London, and the havoc she causes there. Polly y Digory son dos niños que pueden viajar por diferentes mundos gracias a un par de anillos mágicos que fueron forjados especialmente para dicho propósito. Mundos a los cuales únicamente es posible llegar por medio de la magia, ya que no se encuentran en nuestro plano existencial, ni aunque recorriéramos cada rincón del universo podríamos llegar a aquellos lugares. Lo que nunca imaginaron, es que, debido a esto, formarían parte del nacimiento de una nueva y magnífica tierra; teniendo trato directo con una deidad de aquel misterioso confín, quien los hará embarcarse en una aventura, con la intención de enmendar sus errores y aprender de estos. Esto y mucho más es lo que nos ofrece la primera historia de la saga de Las crónicas de Narnia.Some details of the creation of Narnia, such as the emergence of animals from the ground, and the way they shake earth from their bodies are also similar to passages in Paradise Lost, and may also have been inspired by descriptions of the processes of nature in the seventh book of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. [33] The Garden of the Hesperides [ edit ] Have you ever wondered where the lamp-post in Narnia came from? Or how it got there? For that matter, how did the evil Jadis get there? Her lineage has no roots in Narnia, so how did she find her way there?

Is this the first book in the series! Is it the sixth? Does it even matter? I'm reading it first because I conducted a very thorough investigation into the series and determined that my plan to read them this way is the right way to read them. However, my very scientific thorough analysis also concluded that this book can be read later and no one really cares and it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Just read the series is all I'm saying, although I haven't even read the series myself so that may be moderately premature on my part. He realizes that the pools are like doors, and the worlds they lead to are like houses, a fairly profound insight. Hardy, Elizabeth Baird (2007). Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: literary sources for the C. S. Lewis novels. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2876-2. pp30–34 But then, Lewis' world is mostly a faultless one. People never act or decide, they are lead along by empty symbols of pure good or pure evil, following one or the other because they are naive. As usual, Lewis' view of humanity is predictably dire: always too naive, too foolish to know what good and evil are, even when they are right in front of us, and yet we are apparently still to be reviled and cursed when they make the wrong decision, even if we couldn't have known what we were about. His villains are like Snidely Whiplash: they are comically evil, evil not due to some internal motivation, but because the narrative requires it. Yet Lewis is not reveling in the comedic promise of overblown evil, he's trying to be instructive. So he dooms his own instruction: it is only capable of warning us about dangers which are so ridiculous that they never could have tempted us in the first place.I could intuitively sense, within the first few chapters, that this book influenced not only J.R.R. Tolkien, but Robert Jordan and J.K. Rowling, as well. I could feel it, I could feel the connection between their writings and this work. One day in London, two children, Polly and Digory, meet, and they accidently encounter Uncle Andrew who sends them on an incredible adventure. The children find themselves in new worlds and meeting new world leaders. On their quest, they have to make many difficult choices and to whom they are going to listen. Get ready for a magically delicious journey!