Recommended edition: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia)ġ0. The third Narnia book to be published and the fifth in terms of the series’ internal chronology, it’s one of the most exciting adventures in the whole heptalogy. Lucy and Edmund, the two youngest Pevensie children, are transported back into Narnia along with their cousin, the unpopular Eustance Clarence Scrubb, a boy so objectionable that he ‘almost deserved’ his name.

This is the ‘sea story’ in the seven-part Chronicles of Narnia: this time, it is not a wardrobe but a painting of a ship that acts as the portal through to Narnia. Recommended edition: Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia) There are some nice references to events and objects which featured in the first novel, which was set some 1,300 years earlier in Narnian history. The second published novel in the Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian was published in 1951 and sees the four Pevensie children who appeared in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe return to Narnia to help the titular prince to win the crown. Recommended edition: The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6) It doesn’t feature any of the core Pevensie children, instead focusing on Eustace Scrubb (from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) and his schoolmate Jill Pole, who escape school bullies by entering the world of Narnia.Ī cast of some of Lewis’s best characters, including Puddleglum the Marsh-Wiggle and the villainous Lady of the Green Kirtle, make this one of Lewis’s best Narnia novels. Recommended edition: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto Classics)Īlong with The Horse and His Boy, this is probably the most neglected of the seven Chronicles of Narnia, although it’s less easy to see why in the case of The Silver Chair. It’s an accessible and highly readable introduction to the various philosophical and scientific belief systems underpinning medieval and Renaissance literature, shot through with Lewis’s strong opinions on the literature of both periods. Lewis Signature Classic)Īnother work of non-fiction, this was his last book, published posthumously in 1964 following Lewis’ death in November the previous year (famously, he died on the same day that JFK was assassinated – the same day on which Aldous Huxley also died). Published two years before The Screwtape Letters, in 1940, this book takes another theological issue – in this case, the problem of pain and suffering and why a loving God would allow it to exist in the world – and explores it, but this time in a non-fiction work.

Recommended edition: Out of the Silent Planet (The Cosmic Trilogy)

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