The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis, 1950
Fantasy Young adultLiterary fictionContemporary fiction
A journey into a land of profound moral weight and impossible geography, where childhood magic confronts ancient law.
Feels like wonder, awe and curiosity. About morality, faith and adventure.
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Some desires, granted perfectly, may prove to be burdens too heavy for any mortal heart to bear.
Alas,“ said Aslan, shaking his head. ”It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart’s desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it. C.S. Lewis.Lewis often blended Christian allegory with deep folklore, adapting medieval tropes into a framework that fascinated modern readers.
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- What is The Chronicles of Narnia like?
- Feels like wonder, awe and curiosity. About morality, faith and adventure.
- What should I read after The Chronicles of Narnia?
- If you liked The Chronicles of Narnia, try A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin), Northern Lights (Philip Pullman) and Sophie’s World (Jostein Gaarder).
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The oldest rule of magic is a warning about unintended consequences.
You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
A Wizard of Earthsea · Ursula K. Le Guin
A gift that looks like a compass but measures something else entirely.
It lay heavily in her hands, the crystal face gleaming, the golden body exquisitely machined. It was very like a clock, or a compass, for there were hands pointing to places around the dial, but instead of the hours or the points of the compass there were several little pictures, each of them painted with extraordinary precision, as if on ivory with the finest and slenderest sable brush. She turned the dial around to look at them all. There was an anchor; an hourglass surmounted by a skull; a chameleon, a bull, a beehive... Thirty-six altogether, and she couldn’t even guess what they meant.
Northern Lights · Philip Pullman
The whole span of a friendship, measured from hello to disappearance.
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.
Sophie’s World · Jostein Gaarder
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