Narnia scholar Will Vaus has written a book about Narnia that Owen A. Barfield calls “A thoughtful and thought-provoking book.” You might recognize the name, and you wouldn’t be mistaken. Owen A. Barfield is the grandson of C.S. Lewis’ good friend Owen Barfield, and his Aunt Lucy is the one to whom Lewis dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. But what is the book about? Read what some Lewis scholars have said, and you’ll have a really good idea.
Hey, everybody! Welcome back to Tumnus’s Bookshelf, where we review any and all books by and about CS Lewis and the land of Narnia. Today we will be looking at Sarah Arthur’s book Walking Through the Wardrobe: A Devotional Quest through the Land of Narnia.”
TIME magazine book critic Lev Grossman has compiled a list of the six best fantasy novels of all time. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” made the cut, and Grossman says the novel “is pure Turkish Delight: The more you read, the more you want.” Not surprisingly, Tolkein’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy is also included.
We at narniafans.com couldn’t agree more. Read Grossman’s list at Techland and The Week.
We just recieved word today that CS Lewis’s beloved Chronicles of Narniawill soon receive their own “Leatherbound Classics Edition” from Barnes and Noble. This hardcover volume, will include all seven books in one, and is sure to be a treasured keepsake for every fan. There is no word on if the books will be featrued in their original publication order or their chronological order. As soon as we can get further information on the volume, we will let you know.
This would be one amazing find, as The Last Battle is my favorite book in the series. A first edition of the book has been discovered by a pair of charity bookshop volunteers. Christine and Robert Williams were sorting through a delivery of donations to the National Trust’s second-hand bookshop at Mottisfont and came across a copy of the book. Small, hardcovered, complete with a beautifully illustrated dust jacket. The book was published in 1956 and could be worth as much as £1,000.
Narnia Fan Spy Reepicheep, Knight of Narnia, wrote to us about the return of Narnia.com earlier today. Initially, when I went to the domain, it still went to the Disney website. I believe that the DNS hadn’t updated in my area yet.
Jordan Davis has written an excellent article on C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia for The Nation. It dives into Laura Miller’s The Magician’s Book, in which she is so deep into her own claimed perspective that she is in constant denial of what she wants to avoid. He writes:
Born in 1898 to a Belfast solicitor and his mathematics-trained wife, C.S. Lewis, or Jack, as he preferred to be called, was deemed by his tutor for the Oxford entrance exams to have been “born with the literary temperament,” and “while admirably adapted for excellence and probably for distinction in literary matters, he is adapted for nothing else.” It was true. An admirer of Beatrix Potter, young Jack wrote talking-animal novels and came to have hopes of success as a poet. One thing got in the way: he was not a poet. And not, by the way, in the manner in which Ford Madox Ford wasn’t a poet–Ford in his poems lived up to his standard that poetry should be at least as well written as prose. Lewis talked down to himself in his poems; this is the fatal flaw in much of what we know as bad poetry.
Read the rest at The Nation
In recent years, there have been two different fantasy series that share similarities. They have the same basic plots, the same basic creatures, and so on. Looking at the posters, cases, and trailers, you would think they were very alike, but when you look deeper, you see that they are very different indeed. This fact shows itself through the success of the books and films of their names. Read the rest of this entry »
WETA has been nominated for the 2009 Children’s and Young Adults Book Awards, for their book ‘The Crafting of Narnia.’
Congratulations WETA! You deserve it!
Before you can film a fantasy movie, you must create an authentic world. What kind of weather is found within, what would the buildings be made of, what creatures populate its land, and what is the history behind its people? For every stunning frame of film, there have been countless hours of work to create such majesty. And what a task to bring to the screen one of the world’s most beloved children’s series, C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.
Welcome to Tumnus’s Book Shelf where we review any and all books related to The Chronicles of Narnia and CS Lewis! For today’s book we will be reviewing Tales Before Narnia, edited by Douglas Anderson.
Title: Tales Before Narnia
Author: Various
Edited by: Douglas A. Anderson
Publisher: Del Ray
ISBN -10: 0345498909
ISBN -13: 978-0345498908
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