The Silver Chair
1953 children's fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Silver Chair is a children's portal fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1953.[4] It was the fourth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956); it is volume six in recent editions, which are sequenced according to Narnian history. Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.[1][3]
Author | C. S. Lewis |
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Illustrator | Pauline Baynes |
Cover artist | Pauline Baynes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | The Chronicles of Narnia |
Genre | Children's fantasy novel, Christian literature |
Publisher | Geoffrey Bles |
Publication date | 7 September 1953 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 217 (first edition)[1] 51,022 words (US)[2] |
ISBN | 978-0-00-671681-5 (Collins, 1998; full colour) |
OCLC | 1304139 |
LC Class | PZ8.L48 Si[3] |
Preceded by | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
Followed by | The Horse and His Boy |
Text | The Silver Chair online |
The novel is set primarily in the world of Narnia, decades after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader there but less than a year later in England.[lower-alpha 1] King Caspian X is now an old man, but his son and only heir, Prince Rilian, is missing. Aslan the lion sends two children from England to Narnia on a mission to resolve the mystery: Eustace Scrubb, from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and his classmate, Jill Pole. In England, Eustace and Jill are students at a horrible boarding school, Experiment House.
The Silver Chair is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Colin Hardie, a member of the Inklings with Lewis.
Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year.[1][3]
The Silver Chair was adapted and filmed as a BBC television series of six episodes in 1990.