The Chronicles of Narnia

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Title: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Author: C. S. Lewis Four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, are evacuated from London during the London Blitz of World War II, and placed with an elderly Professor in a large country-house. It is a house of many rooms that the children eagerly explore.

Title: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia Author: C. S. Lewis The year is 1941. The four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are waiting for connecting trains at a railway station in the course of their journey back to their respective boarding schools. Suddenly, they feel the pull of magic and find themselves tumbling into an overgrown forest. Through logic, discovery, and memory, they realize they have returned to Narnia and that hundreds of years have passed since they reigned there as kings and queens.

Title: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Author: C. S. Lewis Eustace Clarence Scrubb is an unpleasant and arrogant child. His parents, Harold and Alberta, advocates of the free-thinking philosophy of the 1940’s, are equally self-centered and self-righteous. Intelligent, precocious, and seemingly well educated in a variety of subjects, Eustace attends a Progressive School that employs many of the most faddish of psychological theories. Eustace, like his parents, is an uptight prig—cruel, patronizing, and narrow minded without realizing it.

Title: The Silver Chair Author: C. S. Lewis Jill Pole is crying behind the gymnasium of Experiment House, a dreadful co-educational school whose headmaster, in his quest for ‘interesting psychological cases’, inadvertently fosters a caste system of bullies and everybody else. Jill is hiding from the bullies.

Title: The Horse and His Boy Author: C. S. Lewis A young boy called Shasta has been found and raised by Arsheesh, a Calormene fisherman. Arsheesh agrees to sell the boy to a powerful Calormene feudal noble. Shasta is glad to hear that he is not the fisherman's true son, and awaits his new master in the donkey stable outside the fisherman's house. As he muses aloud, the noble's stallion, Bree, begins to talk to Shasta, who is astounded. Together the pair decide to escape a life of servitude in Calormen by riding north for Narnia. They meet another pair of escaping travellers, Aravis, a young Calormene aristocrat, and her talking horse, Hwin. Aravis is fleeing a forced marriage to the Tisroc's grand vizier.

Title: The Magician's Nephew Author: C. S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew is a fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis. It was the sixth book published in his The Chronicles of Narnia series, but is the first in the internal chronology. Thus it is an early example of a prequel and includes many references to the previously published books, especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In more recent republications, the books have been re-ordered with The Magician's Nephew as book one.

Title: The Last Battle Author: C. S. Lewis In The Last Battle, Lewis brings The Chronicles of Narnia to an end. The book deals with the end of time in the old Narnia and sums up the series by linking the experience of the human children in Narnia with their lives in the real world.