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    The Magician's Nephew
    The Magician's Nephew
    The Magician's Nephew
    Audiobook3 hours

    The Magician's Nephew

    Written by C. S. Lewis

    Narrated by Kenneth Branagh

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    Narnia . . . a land frozen in eternal winter . . . a country waiting to be set free

    Witness the creation of a magical land in The Magician's Nephew, the first title in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has captivated readers of all ages for over sixty years.

    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.

    This is a stand-alone novel, but if you want to journey back to Narnia, read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 24, 2005
    ISBN9780060854447
    Author

    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló. Sus contribuciones a la crítica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantástica y teología popular le trajeron fama y aclamación a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribió más de treinta libros, lo cual le permitió alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aún atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada año. Sus más distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Crónicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.

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    Readers find this title to be a fantastic start to the Narnia series. The narration is enjoyable and brings the characters to life. It is a great read for both young and old, with a timeless and adventurous story. The book sets up the enchanting series and provides interesting thoughts and visualizations of a different world. Overall, it is an excellent and enchanting book that is highly recommended.

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    • 5/5
      Awesome! I love it! I never thought I'd fall in love with an audiobook!
    • 5/5
      The first book in the Narnia series is a great read, as with all of the others there are religious undercurrents and besides that it is a wonderful story don't let the fact that the main protagonists are children this book is for the adult readers too, if you haven't read it then pick it up right away.
    • 3/5
      I have the whole set of the Narnia Chronicles and so I began with this one; I didn't know much about the whole Narnia thing, but since a student bought me the whole set, I thought I'd make a stab:Two things first: There are apparently some Biblical parallels which smarter minds than mine have observed. Two, it's apparently recognized as a great collection.Narnia is this other world with this lion--some personification of what is all good and cool about life whom is trying to preserve this other world--with its living creatures as a good thing, but unfortunately these children from England and their dippy Uncle somehow--through the great magical transportational express of literature and imagination have entered and brought the witch, an arrogant amazon, into a very delicately balanced moral preserve. Anyway, the little dude has a mission by the lion to go get some silver apples..and thus the fire is lit for the whole series (I think).Look, I don't know if The Magician's Nephew is a great piece of literature, but I will continue reading the set..
    • 5/5
      One of the best books in the series.
    • 5/5
      Great start to the Narnia series. Young or Old, it is a great read.
    • 5/5
      The book itself is fantastic, but the narration is even more fantastic! This performer is really enjoyable to listen to!
    • 5/5
      This book would be good to use when talking about how a fantasy world is formed. I think students will like this book because it shows the creation of a new world and the relationship between the uncle and everyone else.
    • 4/5
      Read the whole series. Excellent.
    • 5/5
      I think this is my favorite Narnia book. Digory Kirke (later known as the professor in LWW) and his friend Polly Plummer are sent to another world by Digory's uncle, an amateur magician who doesn't really understand what he's meddling with. There they see the creation of Narnia, but also the evil which has tainted it. It's a wonderful and thoughtful retelling of Genesis, as well as being a good adventure story
    • 3/5
      The books starts off by introducing Digory and Polly. They go to Digory's uncle's attic even though he said not to. His uncle tricks them into taking a ring. It took them to Narnia; they have to answer many questions to get out of there. When they get out they are no longer in the attic. The book just ended but there is a sequel. -SJ
    • 3/5
      It takes place before the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I know I read The Witch and The Wardrobe but I didn't remember this one. Here we learn about the beginning of Narnia and how the Wardrobe came to exist
    • 5/5
      This is the first Narnia novel that I've read, and I must say that it's a breath of fresh air. There isn't a single fantasy novel that I've ever read where there aren't a million people to know and a million new terms that have to be explained, to the point where most need an appendix and dictionary to go along with them and you need to read the series several times before being able to keep everything even somewhat straight. Being able to read through it once and getting it all together was great.Reading through it, the Christian background is obvious. It's so obvious that even I could see it. I don't know how I felt about it; I imagine at some point I will re-read it to try to really delve into the things that weren't immediately obvious to me. The beginnings of the world, humanity's involvement, the garden of Eden and the apple...it's all incorporated. I look forward to reading it again.I was glad that Lewis explained how the wardrobe came into being. I thought Charn was a fascinating place--the concept of young worlds versus old worlds, that worlds die and are born, and how all that was tied into Christian mythology/history was a fasinating take on it all.I look forward to reading this again at a future date.
    • 5/5
      Color me charmed. I started the Narnia Chronicles with the first novel written, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and then went in the numbered order on the books, leaving this book, chronologically first, for last. I'm glad I did. I think you enjoy this tale about the creation of Narnia a lot more if you don't read this novel first. I think you should at least wait until you've read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or you won't appreciate as much details from the beginnings of the White Witch to the origin of the lamp post.I actually didn't adore The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe because I found the Christian Allegory too blatant, but that aspect didn't bother me at all in this book for some reason. Less than in any of the other books, even though if The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the Gospels and The Last Battle Revelations, then this certainly is Genesis. But it's so imaginative and glorious--Aslan singing Narnia into being: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters." I think there's a bit of political allegory here too--the "Deplorable Word" (and maybe even the figure of the Magician) referring to our nuclear age and the so-called "sin of the scientist."There were aspects of the Chronicles that jarred and disturbed me. Although I don't agree with those that accuse Lewis of racism and sexism, the books were written in the 50s and there are wince-worthy moments. Like for instance in The Silver Chair with its slam at co-ed schools or The Last Battle with its description of the Calormenes. I can't recall any moments like that in this novel however.In fact the way Digory and Polly were depicted reminded me of how gender-balanced Lewis is in these tales--with the girls just as brave, smart and important to the adventure as the boys. I also thought in a lot of ways this was the most moving of the Narnia tales. Digory has something personally at stake he cares about in our world--his mother--and that made me care more about him than I did most of Lewis' children protagonists.I also hated how The Last Battle ended, so I'm rather glad I left this book for last--definitely leaving Narnia on a high note.
    • 4/5
      interesting book with characters that have special personalities. answers my question to the second book of the narnia series. the best part was at the part where digory went to get the 'special' apple for aslan. it was very intense at that part.
    • 5/5
      The oddest of the Narnia series, in many ways, this book tells of the origin of the world, and is thus, chronilogically, the first. And yet it was the penultimate as written. What I remember most are three thrilling, chilling images:1. The Wood Between the Worlds, silent, mysterious.2. The bell that awakened the world that had been frozen by the speaking of the Deplorable Word.3. The creation of Narnia by a singing lion.Amazing fantasy.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this pre-quell (that's an ugly word, I think I prefer back-story). Bayne's illustrations include "the View of Charn", also as good as the "weeping Dragon" in "Dawn Treader".the Professor in whose house, the Pevensie children find the wardrobe, comes to be given his due, in this story, a kind of Genesis and the books of the Prophets combined. Lewis was a fine writer, and the didactism is not a drawback to the un-dogmatic reader. Read it aloud with your children, share the illustrations, and participate in the discussions arising. Do it for all the Narnia books, please!
    • 4/5
      The story of how Narnia came to be. While more recent editions of the Chronicles have this as the first book, I much prefer the old ordering, as I don't think this one is nearly as interesting if one reads it first.
    • 5/5
      So many things happen throughout the book
    • 3/5
      A tame beginning to a great series.
    • 5/5
      This is the SIXTH book in the Chronicles of Narnia. VERY IMPORTANT.I love reading about how Narnia is formed. It is SO IMPORTANT that you DO NOT read this volume first! Yes, chronologically, it comes first in the story of Narnia. But so much magic is lost if your first introduction to this world is not through the wardrobe with Lucy! Imagine if this were your first time meeting Jadis! And Aslan! The gravity of these characters isn't there if this book is read first! (I'm very passionate about this, if you couldn't tell.) Setting aside the reading order...I do really enjoy this volume. Again, with the religious under(over)tones - Aslan creating the world...pretty obvious. The children are believable and not annoying. And the boy grows up to be the Professor from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - imagine not knowing him already! Gah! Okay, I'm done now.
    • 3/5
      A prequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, this was published after LWW. Liek the remaining Narnia books it is a re-telling of the Christian view of Good v Evil. This novel is also a re-telling of the Genesis story, complete with temptation and redemption. I'm glad that I didn't read them in the order Lewis suggested for the because the prequel dispels some of the wonder that comes with reading the LWW for the first time. Cast in the conventions of early-mid twentieth century children's story-telling, some younger readers may not connect with the characters. Nevertheless it was still an enjoyable Narnia introduction.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of Polly and Digory who are tricked into traveling among worlds by Digory’s uncle. In their travels, they awaken the evil Queen Jadis, bring her back to London and then travel with even more people to the land that, through Aslan’s song, becomes Narnia. It was nice to read the story that gives insight into the White Witch, the lamppost and the wardrobe and how these things came to be.
    • 5/5
      This was my favorite in the series, especialy because I read it in the old published sequence, where it appears later. It was fun discovering the beginning near the end.
    • 4/5
      Written in 1955 (a very good year), The Magician's Nephew is an earlyexample of a prequel. Written as the sixth book in the Chronicles of Narniaseries, it actually takes place first and sets the stage for the otherbooks.In London in the year 1900, it's been a long wet summer. Polly lives in arow house and meets Digory, a young boy who's recently moved next door tolive with his aunt and uncle. His father is in India and his mother isseriously ill. Digory misses the country and hates living in this "BeastlyHole" in London. The two become friends and one day decide to explore theattic, which links all the row houses together. They accidentally stumbleinto Digory's uncle's secret study. Uncle Andrew is a self-taught magicianand welcomes two victims...err...volunteers to test his latest bit ofmagic--yellow rings and green rings that take the wearer to the Wood Betweenthe Worlds. Digory and Polly agree to the test and find the Wood Between theWorlds to have many puddles of water. Digory believes each puddle to be theentryway into another world, and he talks Polly into jumping in one beforereturning to Uncle Andrew. They find themselves in the ruined world of Charnand Digory awakens the evil Queen Jadis.Jadis follows them back to Uncle Andrew's study and after an interestingtour of London, Jadis follows a group containing Polly, Digory and UncleAndrew to yet another world. They hear the lion, Aslan, singing, and theywatch the world of Narnia being born.It's easy to read this and track down all the Biblical allegories. It's easyto read this and see the shadows of World War II. But it's easier still toread it and escape into the story and characters which are wonderful inthemselves. I quite enjoyed my first visit to Narnia.
    • 4/5
      The Magician's Nephew is the real beginning of The Chronicles of Narnia. It tells how the travels between Narnia and the world in England began. Digory's crazy uncle has a set of magic rings that he tricks Digory and his friend, Polly, into using. The rings transport them to Narnia and to a world of adventure. But Digory's uncle threatens to spoil it all with his greed. This book helps you understand the background of all the others.
    • 4/5
      I am using this book for my book group of eight year olds. They love it and I love it. The suspense is such that the kids want to go to the next chapter to see what happens. The girls identify with Polly and none of them like the witch who abuses her power when she has it. They like that the story takes them in to new, different and imagined worlds.
    • 4/5
      See review of "Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe."
    • 5/5
      Classic, great, a must-read. Some volumes are more enjoyable than others though. 
    • 4/5
      Some things were GREAT about this book - the creation of Narnia, how the witch got to Narnia, of course - Aslan, Lantern Waste, how the Wardrobe came to be etc. etc. etc.
      And the writing was simply magical.

      But this book was great only because there are books to come after it (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe being the next one) and I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it so much if I hadn't already read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

      I am reading the books in the order that C.S. Lewis wanted them read in NOT the order they were published in so this is Book #1 in the series for me.

      Highly recommended
    • 4/5
      The Magician's Nephew is the story of Narnia's creation and, as all the stories do, is full of Biblical allegory and inspirational aphorism. In it we learn how the White Witch comes to Narnia, where the lamp post comes from and how the Wardrobe came into being. Of the Narnia series, it is perhaps my very favourite. Especially as I did not read it first (it was not the first written) and got to experience the joy of piecing the puzzle together. As with all the stories, I find that they mean something entirely different to me now, as an adult, then they did when I read them as a child. Well worth reading and re-reading. They never get old.