{"id":543,"date":"2002-05-12T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2002-05-13T07:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/12\/the-complete-chronicles-of-narnia\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:27:02","slug":"the-complete-chronicles-of-narnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/12\/the-complete-chronicles-of-narnia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Chronicles of Narnia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I just finished all seven books of Narnia<\/a>. I hadn’t read these in many, many years, and at some point C.S. Lewis decided that he’d rather have the books presented in their chronological order (according to events in Narnia) rather than the order they were written in, so it was in many ways an almost entirely new experience for me.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the preferred order of the books is as follows: The Magician’s Nephew<\/a>, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/a>, The Horse and his Boy<\/a>, Prince Caspian<\/a>, The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’<\/a>, The Silver Chair<\/a>, and The Last Battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had a blast reading these again — though it was a far different experience from when I did when I was younger. I really had no idea there was such strong Christian symbology running throughout the series! It doesn’t really surprise me, as I’m somewhat familiar with some of C.S. Lewis’ other work<\/a>, it was just something that I hadn’t caught on to when I first read the books. At this point, though TLtWatW<\/em> is the one that is most known, I think that either THahB<\/em> or TLB<\/em> are my favorites in the series — THahB<\/em> mostly because of its somewhat different take on Aslan<\/a>, and TLB<\/em> for coming up with not just a wonderfully fitting end to the entire series, but for its depiction of Aslan’s country and what happens after the end of everything.<\/p>\n

Wonderful stuff, and well worth re-reading after all these years.

Well, I just finished all seven books of Narnia. I hadn’t read these in many, many years, and at some point C.S. Lewis decided that he’d rather have the books presented in their chronological order rather than the order they were written in, so it was in many ways an almost entirely new experience for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[2094,2093],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-the-chronicles-of-narnia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}