30 Facts About Narnia

Chronicles of Narnia is considered a classic of children's literature and is Lewis's best-selling work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages.

Seven books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia are presented here in order of original publication date:.

The children become kings and queens of this new-found land and establish the Golden Age of Narnia, leaving a legacy to be rediscovered in later books.

Fifty years have passed in Narnia since the events from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Eustace is still a child, but Caspian, barely an adult in the previous book, is an old man.

Narnia is a middle-aged professor by the time he hosts the Pevensie children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 40 years later.

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Narnia is the only character to appear in all seven books.

Narnia is a wise, compassionate, magical authority who serves as mysterious and benevolent guide to the human children who visit, as well as being the guardian and saviour of Narnia.

Narnia is portrayed at first as a brat and a bully, but comes to improve his nasty behaviour when his greed turns him into a dragon for a while.

Narnia appears in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle.

Narnia appears in The Silver Chair, where she is the viewpoint character for most of the action, and returns in The Last Battle.

Narnia first appears as a minor character in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, known only as "The Professor", who hosts the Pevensie children when they are evacuated from London and defends Lucy's story of having found a country in the back of the wardrobe.

Narnia is the next-door neighbour of the young Digory Kirke.

Narnia is tricked by a wicked magician into touching a magic ring which transports her to the Wood between the Worlds and leaves her there stranded.

Narnia later marries Shasta, now known as Prince Cor, and becomes queen of Archenland at his side.

Narnia first appears as a Calormene nobleman's war-horse; when the nobleman buys Shasta as a slave, Bree organises and carries out their joint escape.

Narnia raises Caspian as his heir, but seeks to kill him after his own son is born.

Narnia's plan is foiled when Shasta and Aravis warn the Archenlanders of his impending strike.

Narnia is an elderly Talking Ape – Lewis does not specify what kind of ape, but Pauline Baynes' illustrations depict him as a chimpanzee.

Narnia persuades the naive donkey Puzzle to pretend to be Aslan in order to seize control of Narnia, and proceeds to cut down the forests, enslave the other Talking Beasts, and invite the Calormenes to invade.

Narnia loses control of the situation due to over-indulging in alcohol, and is eventually swallowed up by the evil Calormene god Tash.

Chronicles of Narnia describes the world in which Narnia exists as one major landmass encircled by an ocean.

Narnia's capital sits on the eastern edge of the landmass on the shores of the Great Eastern Ocean.

Michael Ward's 2008 book Planet Narnia proposes that each of the seven books related to one of the seven moving heavenly bodies or "planets" known in the Middle Ages according to the Ptolemaic geocentric model of cosmology.

Narnia described The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe around the time of its completion as "a children's book in the tradition of E Nesbit".

Chronicles of Narnia has been a significant influence on both adult and children's fantasy literature in the post-World War II era.

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Furthermore, the protagonists become powerful kings and queens who decide the fate of kingdoms, while the adults in the Narnia books tended to be buffoons, which by inverting the normal order of things was pleasing to many youngsters.

Second SNL Digital Short by Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell features a humorous nerdcore hip hop song titled Chronicles of Narnia, which focuses on the performers' plan to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at a cinema.

Lewis maintained that the Narnia books were not allegorical, preferring to term their Christian aspects a "supposition".

However, later on he gave in and changed the entire concept of this world – there have always been very many humans in this world, and Narnia is just one very special country with a lot of talking animals and fauns and dwarves etc.

Narnia was frightened and appalled at the notion of wanting to grow up.