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    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    Written by C.S. Lewis

    Narrated by Michael York

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    • Magic

    • Adventure

    • Courage

    • Friendship

    • Good Vs. Evil

    • Prophecy

    • Winter Wonderland

    • Evil Queen

    • Magical Creatures

    • Portal Fantasy

    • Chosen One

    • Hero's Journey

    • Prophecies

    • Secret Passage

    • Betrayal & Redemption

    • Betrayal

    • Family

    • Fantasy

    • Winter

    • Loyalty

    About this audiobook

    Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read.

    Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over sixty years. This is a stand-alone read, but if you would like to explore more of the Narnian realm, follow up with The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 24, 2005
    ISBN9780060854461
    Author

    C.S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló. Sus contribuciones a la crítica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantástica y teología popular le trajeron fama y aclamación a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribió más de treinta libros, lo cual le permitió alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aún atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada año. Sus más distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Crónicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.

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    Reviews for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    4.5/5

    1,775 ratings316 reviews

    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a classic and wonderful story, with good narration and excellent character voices. Some reviewers wished for more dramatization and voices, but overall enjoyed listening to the book. The narrator is praised for doing a wonderful job. The story is described as fun, fantastical, and magical, with a deep Christian application that touched the hearts of believers. The parallels to Scripture and the picture of Aslan regenerating those turned to stone are particularly appreciated. Overall, this is an exciting and adventurous book that is highly recommended.

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    • 5/5
      This is one of my seven favorite books. I can't pick just one of "The Chronicles of Narnia".I love the world of Narnia and its magical characters, and experiencing that land through the eyes of the Pevensie children, arriving from a war-torn home.I love that one can read this book for an enjoyable story or one can choose to look deeper into it to do some thinking and soul-searching. Even though I've read this book 9 times (and listened to it once), I can still learn new things about it.[SPOILERS BELOW]I love the retelling of the Biblical crucifixion story (or the "supposal", as Lewis called it). It's a way that children can be introduced to Jesus' sacrifice and a way that it can be made personal for them, as Aslan only dies directly for Edmund. It's also a way that adults can look at His sacrifice from a different angle and maybe notice some things they've never noticed before (helpful if you grew up in church and have heard the story a million times).[END SPOILERS]Someday, I'll write a review that comes closer to doing my favorite book series justice. But this is it for today. ;)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A truly magical novel and deservedly considered a classic.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The first in the chronicles, and probably the best of all the 7 books.

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    • 3/5
      This one was good too. I loved the winter-temperature :D...

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    • 5/5
      If you're looking for a short good book, this is it
    • 5/5
      Timeless classic tale of wonder and amazement. Good for children and adults alike. Michael York does a superb job narrating the story.
    • 5/5
      I read the line the witch in the wardrobe before, and then I read all the other books, but I never read the magicians nephew the first book so when I read it, it made this book more sense. This book was full of adventure and it was really great. I love this book because in it, it has some sadness at the middle of it. Confusion at the beginning, and the ending was awesome.!!!
    • 4/5
      Have read the books multiple times and enjoyed listening to the audio version. The dramatization was good, though I want to complain about the unevenness of the volume levels. Seems to me they could have done a better job with compression so I didn’t have to turn up on soft passages and then down when it got louder.
    • 3/5
      Hard to listen to on road trips, weird voices.
    • 5/5
      It’s so exciting and adventurous and I also LOVED the part where santa clause gave them presents and he finally made it Christmas.???
    • 5/5
      This book was good, to me it started out boring but once you got toward the middle it got SO much better
    • 5/5
      I just loved the book. i loved the characters a lot
    • 5/5
      but is it better than diary of a wimpy kid?
    • 5/5
      The first time I read this, it didn't move me. The second time, my viewpoint on life had changed and I was able to discern the many messages in it. As a Christian, this book took on a whole other meaning. You don't have to be a Christian to enjoy this story, the ideals of sacrifice, love and courage are very plain, no matter what you believe about God.This is a fantasy world of the first order. One you will not be able to leave behind. Every wardrobe you see will make you want to open it...just in case. Four children who find comfort and entertainment in the oh so very unsettling world of WWII England. Safe in the countryside, so their parents believe, they find their understanding of the world and each other permanently changed.
    • 5/5
      love this book and cs lewis and the audiobook :)
    • 4/5
      As a child, I was uncomfortable with Edmund's treachery, but I admired the clarity of Professor Kirk's reasoning on Lucy's sanity and honesty.
    • 5/5
      In this book, we are introduced to Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy, four children who are sent away to stay with some relatives during the war. While playing hide-and-seek one day, Lucy, the youngest of the four, finds a wardrobe through which she can eneter the fantastic, magical world of Narnia. At first, her older siblings do not believe her, but by the end of the story, all four of the children find themselves emersed in the danger, excitement, and unexpected turnings of the Narnian world. C.S. Lewis crafted this story in a way that purposefully ties in with the Christian faith.
    • 1/5
      Kept cutting off and closing out while listening to it didn't used to do this why now all of a sudden
    • 1/5

      Four out of ten.

      Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, who step through a magic wardrobe into Narnia, once the peaceful land of Talking Beasts, Dwarfs, Giants, and Fauns, but now frozen into winter by the evil White Witch.

      When read as an adult, the language and imagery used is very grating.

    • 4/5
      The recent movie adaption of this charming little story stayed astonishingly close to the original. The book itself was a fast and easy read, however, I was at times a bit distracted by the role of the narrator, especially when he addressed the reader directly, but maybe I'm not used to that.
    • 5/5
      I am an adult and enjoyed listening to to this again.
    • 4/5
      So, this is my first time reading this book and I was highly impressed with C.C Lewis' writing. It is an infrequent occurrence for me to go back and re-read sentences or paragraphs just because I find them fascinating, i.e., the combination of words themselves, not the story. Anyway, I thought the book was great mostly, I thought the ending was not as strong as it could have been. Partly, because I found the characters like Mr. Tumnus and the Beaver's to be more interesting than Aslan. I also wasn't fond of Lewis' roles he chose for the girl characters, i.e., Lucy and Susan. For example, this is Father Christmas giving Susan a bow "You must use the bow only in great need," he sad, "for I do not mean you to fight in the battle". And when Lucy asks why she shouldn't fight because she thinks she is brave enough he responds "that is not the point...battles are ugly when women fight". And towards the end of the book, the girls cry and dance more than anything else. Also, it became very clear to me that Aslan was supposed to represent Jesus, so much so that I became distracted by it. But his writing style is so strong that I would recommend this book to young adults in a heartbeat. I would make sure to let them know the book was written in the 50's when women's roles were far different than today though.
    • 4/5
      The whole air of the story is rich and strange and coherent; there is something of Hans Andersen's power to move and George MacDonald's power to create strange worlds, and it is, naturally, beautifully written.
    • 3/5
      One of the best features of children’s classics is the rich nature of fantasy, which offers so many possibilities. In this book, the goodies and baddies have fully developed characters, although modern readers may consider the morals are laid on a bit thick. I read this to my children, as befits a children’s classic that I’ve never actually got around to reading to date. Yes, I know, the world of literature is full of classics that I’ve so far missed out on. My kids loved the story, although they were somewhat challenged by the rather quaint phrasing. Despite this, the story seems not to have dated at all, and we also loved the movie.
    • 5/5
      Children's literature at its finest!
    • 4/5
      I understand why children have loved this, although I came at it decades too late. Also, the hit-you-over-the-head similarities to Christianity bothered me.
    • 5/5
      For the record: I object to the renumbering that the idiotic publishers have inflicted on this series. It is simply and obviously wrong to anyone with the ability to actually read and comprehend the English language. I therefore refuse to acknowledge it. And so, I began reading the series to my son starting with this book, rather than The Magician's Nephew as recommended.

      I first encountered The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in fifth grade. As I recall my teacher, Mrs. Gage (at Hillspoint Elementary School) read it to us aloud, a chapter or so every day. I ended up reading the whole series, of course, and loved it.

      So it was just a matter of time before I started reading the series to my son. He's seven and a half, and it seemed the right time to start. He'd been asking to watch the movie, and I knew that I didn't want him to see it before reading the book.

      Sebastian loved the book. It read well. I found the religious elements to be a bit more flagrant and extreme than I remembered, but they didn't ruin the book. All in all, it was an enjoyable, fun read that is definitely one of our new favorites.

      (We watched the movie afterwards, and while there were some notable differences between the book and the movie, they weren't too awful.)
    • 5/5
      This modern fantasy tells the tale of four siblings who come across the mysterious land known as Narnia. Readers are drawn in to read about the battle of good and evil as Aslan and the White Witch fight over the four siblings. This book would be most appropriate for middle school age children.
    • 5/5
      This was one of my favorite books when I was little. My mom would read it to me every night before I would go to bed. When she read it to me, it felt as though the words of the book were taking me into the world of Narnia. the Author uses such magnificent and enchanting words that make you want to read more. I recommend this book to anyone who has a good imagination and is looking for a book to get caught up in.
    • 3/5
      This is the first book that gave me the idea that stories could be filled with wonders and need not be connected to the real world. So, it's my first fantasy book. Others have come and gone (write George, Write like the Wind!) but I've looked at the back walls of practically every closet I've been left alone with....just in case...