Magician's Nephew

C S Lewis

Collins Children's Books, 1998 - Good and evil - 188 pages

"NARNIA ... where horses sometimes grow wings and Talking Beasts are called to life .. a new world full of magic, where the adventures begin. Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in london. Their lives burst into adventure when Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to ... somewhere else. They find their way to a new land - Narnia! But when they awaken an evil sorceress, Polly and Digory are sent on a quest to stop her before she destroys the world they've just discovered!"-Prelim.

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Review: The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia #6)

User Review  - Harsh Rakesh - Goodreads

I was reading about the movies to come of Narnia (I already knew that the movies were based on the books by CS Lewis). I saw the third movie and suddenly I clicked the page which gives the overview of ...

Review: The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia #6)

User Review  - Perry Whitford - Goodreads

The Narnia books were very visible around me as a child, yet I do not recall ever actually reading one of them. I went to a Catholic school, my mother is a devout Christian, so you can see why these ...

About the author

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Magician's Nephew; NSW Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6; Volume 1 of The chronicles of Narnia, Clive Staples Lewis, ISBN 0006716849, 9780006716846
• Author: C S Lewis
• Illustrated by: Pauline Baynes
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Collins Children's Books, 1998
• ISBN: 0006716830, 9780006716839
• Length: 188 pages