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“We’ve fallen on our feet and no mistake,” said Peter. As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls’ room and they all talked it over. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pre- tending he was blowing his nose to hide it. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. One LUCY LOOKS INTO A WARDROBE ONCE THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. Peter’s First Battle 98 106 Thirteen 114 Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time 123 131 Fourteen The Triumph of the Witch Fifteen Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time Sixteen What Happened about the Statues Seventeen The Hunting of the White Stag About the Author Other Books in the Narnia Series Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher LewisĬontents vii 3 Map 9 One 19 Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe 26 Two 33 What Lucy Found There 40 Three 47 Edmund and the Wardrobe 57 Four 64 Turkish Delight 73 Five 80 Back on This Side of the Door 90 Six Into the Forest Seven A Day with the Beavers Eight What Happened after Dinner Nine In the Witch’s House Ten The Spell Begins to Break Eleven Aslan Is Nearer Twelve

I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. To Lucy Barfield My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. LEWIS Book Two THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE Illustrated by PAULINE BAYNES

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