Books : The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia)
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by: C. S. Lewis
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780064471107
ISBN: 0064471101
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: July 08, 1994
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: July 01, 1994
Sales Rank: 370668
Studio: HarperCollins
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure.
Amazon.com Review:
This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician's Nephew, is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis's Chronicles through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.
Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes's original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Prelude To The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
In this book, two children, Polly Plummer and Digory, embark on a series of adventures into other worlds after first becoming friends in London where Polly lives in a row house. Digory lives with his aunt and rather strange uncle, staying there while his father is off in India. The uncle tricks the children into using rings to visit other worlds, but as a result of these explorations serious complications result. In one world the Digory awakens a cruel and evil queen, Jadis, who had destroyed her ... Read More
Rating:  - Ring the bell and set the witch free
This book seems to have been written to give the classic " The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" from the '40's a history, but later? C.S. Lewis continued to write about this alternate fantasy reality with the Christian overtones for seven books. I don't rate this as one of the better ones,
but they are all interesting mixes of magic, alternate worlds and
Christian divine right of kings mythology. We have ordinary boys and girls on their summer/ vacation "adventures" become princes ... Read More
Rating: - Not one of the series' better efforts.
C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew (Harper Collins, 1955)
Back when I was a kid, I read what were then considered the first two and a half books of the Chronicles of Narnia; I never did make it through The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Now, with the travesty that was the movie version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe hanging in my memory, I felt the need to go back and revisit these, first to see if I could finally finish Dawn Treader, and second to see if the books were as good ... Read More
Rating:  - Magical tale
It has been a long while since I read the Magician's Nephew for the first time. Nonetheless it came back to me to make the second time a even better experience. It is very well written and we enjoyed the creation of a new world and a beautiful world it was. This is a great book for all ages especially for those who enjoy magic.
Anna del C.
Author of "The Elf and the Princess"
The Elf and The Princess: The Silent Warrior Trilogy - Book One (The Silent Warrior Trilogy)
Rating: - The beginning of a Children's Classic
I used to watch "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" cartoon constantly when I was a little kid. Strangely enough, despite the fact that I was an avid reader as a child, as I still am today, I never read these books. I did enjoy other fantasy novels as a kid, but for some reason these never came my way, nor did I ever really ask for them. So since the movies are now being made I decided that I would pick up the books and see if I could delve even deeper into the tale of Narnia, since it appears ... Read More
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