✨ Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis B&N Blue Bonded Leather 2010 2nd Print 🦁

by C.S. Lewis

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Here is a single, stunning volume that contains the entire history of Narnia—from the first spark of creation to the last battle—bound in the deep blue bonded leather that has made this particular Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition one of the most quietly coveted modern omnibuses. C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), Oxford and Cambridge scholar and Inkling, wrote the seven books between 1949 and 1954. He preferred them read in chronological order, the sequence this 2010 edition follows. Pauline Baynes (1922–2008), the illustrator Lewis chose after admiring her work for Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham, supplied the original black-and-white drawings that still define the look of the talking animals, the lamp-post in the snow, and the great lion himself. Amazingly, Baynes met Lewis only twice. Her maps and figures, drawn with the precision of a wartime cartographer, remain the visual language of Narnia for millions of readers. This is the complete Chronicles: The Magician’s Nephew, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle—799 pages of the stories that gave the language “Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen” and the quiet certainty that “Aslan is on the move,” together with excerpts from Beyond the Wardrobe: The Official Guide to Narnia. The series has sold more than 100 million copies, earned Lewis the Carnegie Medal for its final volume, and crossed into film (the 2005

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
• Year: 2010
• ISBN: 9781435117150
• Condition: Good

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