ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books by C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950), Prince Caspian (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and His Boy (1954), The Magician’s Nephew (1955), and The Last Battle (1956).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books by C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950), Prince Caspian (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and His Boy (1954), The Magician’s Nephew (1955), and The Last Battle (1956).

Detailed explanation-3: -Lewis wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 as a gift for his godchild, Lucy Barfield. He explained the gift to her in his preface to the book: “I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Chronicles of Narnia, considered a classic of children’s literature, is a series of seven fantasy novels. Written between 1949 and 1954 and illustrated by Pauline Baynes, the series is Lewis’s most popular work, having sold over 100 million copies in 41 languages (Kelly 2006) (Guthmann 2005).

Detailed explanation-5: -Although Lewis had no plans to write an eighth Narnia novel, he kept the door open for readers to imagine further tales. In responses to letters from children, Lewis wrote: “But I’m afraid there will be no more of these stories.