The Chronicles of Narnia

This sequence of seven children's novels, published in the 1950s, is set mainly in Narnia, a land of talking beasts, living trees, and contested thrones, entered from England through wardrobes, pictures, and other thresholds. In the first tale four siblings help the lion Aslan break a witch's winter. Later volumes follow a talking horse's flight to the north, a sea voyage toward the world's end, a prince's struggle for his throne, the making of Narnia itself, and a last war for the country. English schoolchildren, Narnian kings, and ordinary talking animals share the adventures. The books are fairy-tale novels with a Christian moral pattern, not one continuous chronicle from a single narrator.

New printing, binding and slipcase. Illustrations. Binding decoration redesigned to be the same on each volume, and printed in gold only. The title on the cover reads ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ without the number of the book. Gold slip-case with a map of Narnia.