The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis
How did Narnia begin? Where did the White Witch come from, and why is there a lamppost in the middle of a Narnian forest? The Magician’s Nephew, the prequel to C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, answers these questions and more.
In London around 1900, Digory Kirke and his new friend and neighbor, Polly Plummer, are exploring the attic passages between their houses when they stumble into the study of Digory’s Uncle Andrew, a vain and foolish man who fancies himself a magician. Uncle Andrew tricks Polly into touching a magic ring that makes her vanish, and Digory has no choice but to follow her.
The rings carry the children to the Wood between the Worlds, a quiet place of pools, each leading to a different world. In the dying world of Charn, Digory’s curiosity awakens Jadis, a beautiful and terrifying queen who destroyed her own world, and she follows them back to London, causing chaos. In the struggle to send her away, the children, Uncle Andrew, a cab driver and his horse are all transported into a dark, empty place, where they witness Aslan the lion singing a new world into being. That world is Narnia.
Digory, who longs to cure his dying mother, is given a task by Aslan to protect Narnia from the evil he has brought into it, and he must resist a powerful temptation.
Imaginative and moving, the book explores creation, temptation, forgiveness and hope, and it shows the origins of familiar elements of Narnia, including the wardrobe.
The Magician’s Nephew is often read first in the series’ chronological order, though it was written sixth. It is a timeless classic for children and families.
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