The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis, 1956
Fantasy Young adultContemporary fictionLiterary fiction
Narnia's last days: an ape, a donkey, a false Aslan, and a handful of creatures deciding what they still believe.
Feels like wonder, nostalgia and dread. About faith and memory.
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A joy so large it feels like being wounded.
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog. C.S. Lewis.The Last Battle won the Carnegie Medal in 1956, the only Narnia book to receive it.
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Questions readers ask
- What is The Last Battle like?
- Feels like wonder, nostalgia and dread. About faith and memory.
- What should I read after The Last Battle?
- If you liked The Last Battle, try The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman), The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern) and Life of Pi (Yann Martel).
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The moment you decide something strange never happened.
I wondered where the illusion of the second moon had come from, but I only wondered for a moment, and then I dismissed it from my thoughts. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane · Neil Gaiman
The strangest letter a magician receives is pinned to a five-year-old.
The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl.
The Night Circus · Erin Morgenstern
What if death is not life's enemy but its jealous lover?
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity — it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
Life of Pi · Yann Martel
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