The Magician’s Nephew

The Magician’s Nephew
Pauline Baynes

C. S. Lewis

Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full colour on a full colour ebook device, and in rich black and white on all other devices.Narnia . . . where Talking Beasts walk . . . where a witch waits . . . where a new world is about to be born.On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible.The Magician’s Nephew is the first book in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over fifty years. This is a stand-alone novel, but if you would like to journey back to Narnia, read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW

C. S. LEWIS

Illustrated by Pauline Baynes

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First published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head in 1955

First published by Collins in paperback in 1980

Colour edition first published in 1998

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Source ISBN: 9780006716839

Ebook Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780007325047

Version: 2017-09-25

To the Kilmer Family

Contents

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The Magician’s Nephew

Chapter One - The Wrong Door

Chapter Two - Digory and his Uncle

Chapter Three - The Wood between the Worlds

Chapter Four - The Bell and the Hammer

Chapter Five - The Deplorable Word

Chapter Six - The Beginning of Uncle Andrew’s Troubles

Chapter Seven - What Happened at the Front Door

Chapter Eight - The Fight at the Lamp-post

Chapter Nine - The Founding of Narnia

Chapter Ten - The First Joke and Other Matters

Chapter Eleven - Digory and his Uncle are Both in Trouble

Chapter Twelve - Strawberry’s Adventure

Chapter Thirteen - An Unexpected Meeting

Chapter Fourteen - The Planting of the Tree

Chapter Fifteen - The End of this Story and the Beginning of all the Others

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