The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis

The magician's nephew. The first in the Narnia series (when put in chronological order). If you're one of those people who read "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe" first and want to know how it all came to be then this is the book for you. Ever wondered how Narnia was created, how the first link from our world to Narnia was made, where the lamp post came from, how Jadis (The White Witch) came in to Narnia or how a wardrobe can transport people to this magical land? All will be revealed in this book. When i read it, i did not expect any of this to have such a large connection to "Lion". It was a great revelation when i realised that's what this ...  Read the complete review

The magical world of Narnia, as created by C.S.Lewis, is more commonly known through the tales of the Pevensie children, and it is a common misconception that The Lion, The Witch and The Wardbrobe is the first tale of Narnia. This is not so. Lewis penned seven books in all, and this, The Magician's Nephew, is the first. Many of you will have experienced Narnia through film, and no doubt you have a plethora of unanswered questions. My advice is to read the books. Lewis created the realm, and the first book in the series, The Magician's Nephew, goes some way to explaining much of what lies ahead in Narnia for the Pevensie children and the significance of a ...  Read the complete review

I loved this book, I felt that it really described the land of Narnia very good, what I really don't understand is why film companies do not bother converting this book into a film, it's worth putting up, because although the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is most commonly known, lots of people asks how did Narnia become Narnia? And why is there a witch in Narnia? Why is there a Lamppost there? And why is it a wardrobe that brings them to the wardrobe? I personally have asked myself these questions after watching the films. So I went onto the internet one night, when these questions were enormously bugging me, and I found that the Lion, The Witch and the ...  Read the complete review

The Magicians Newphew by C.S. Lewis is a fantasy novel that was written as a children's book. It was originally published in 1955 and contains 202 pages of wonderful writing. I found the novel to be very well written and enjoyable to read overall and I really would recommend it as a result. This was the sixth book that was published in the Chronicles of Narnia and yet it appears first in the book. It really is a fantastic book that is written by the great C.S. Lewis so you cannot help but be impressed! The novel is about two children and it is set in London in the time of around the 1900s. The two children are called Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, these two ...  Read the complete review

I think this was the last of the Chronicles of Narnia to be writted but chronologically it serves as the first story. A lot darker in my opinion than the other ones, and a very different style of story, it still haunts me when I read it. I reread the whole chronicles again recently and was vastly unimpressed by the story, I think maybe down to the fact that I had grown up and it was a tale lodged in my childhood. However, the Magician's Nephew still grabbed me and held me and I polished it off in an afternoon. In hindsight I should probably have let it stand on it's own because it worked very well as a story in its own right as well as an origin to the Narnia ...  Read the complete review