Narnia, Chronicles of

Series of seven books for children by C S Lewis. The first in the series, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was published in 1950; in it children enter through a wardrobe into an imaginary country, Narnia. There the Christian story is re-enacted in a mythical context, the lion Aslan representing Christ. Further journeys into Narnia feature in the sequels Prince Caspian (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and his Boy (1954), The Magician's Nephew (1955), and The Last Battle (1956).