The books span the entire history of Narnia, from its creation in The Magician's Nephew, to its eventual destruction in The Last Battle.

* In C. S. Lewis ' Chronicles of Narnia, the Tree of Life plays a role, especially in the sixth published book ( the first in the in-world chronology ) The Magician's Nephew

# REDIRECT The Magician's Nephew

The Magician's Nephew is a fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis.

However, when Roger Lancelyn Green asked him how a lamp post came to be standing in the midst of Narnian woodland, Lewis was intrigued enough by the question to attempt to find an answer by writing The Magician's Nephew, which features a younger version of Professor Kirke from the first novel.

The Magician's Nephew seems to have been the most challenging Narnia novel for Lewis to write.

The other six Chronicles of Narnia were written between 1948 and 1953, The Magician's Nephew was written over a six year period between 1949 and 1954.

He returned to The Magician's Nephew late in 1950, after completing The Silver Chair.

Lewis originally titled the novel " Polly and Digory "; his publisher changed it to The Magician's Nephew.

There are a number of aspects of The Magician's Nephew which closely follow Lewis ' own life.

The Magician's Nephew is written in a lighter tone than other Chronicles of Narnia books, in particular The Last Battle, which was published after.

Lewis was fond of these books, which he read in childhood, a number were set in the same period and The Magician's Nephew has some apparent references or homages to them.

The Magician's Nephew was originally published as the sixth book in the Narnia Chronicles.

In 1980 HarperCollins published the series in order of chronological of the events in the novels, which meant The Magician's Nephew was numbered as first in the series.

In a letter dated 23 April 1957, a young fan, Laurence Krieg wrote to Lewis following the publication of The Magician's Nephew.

He asked for Lewis to adjudicate between his views of the correct sequence of reading the novels — according to the sequence of events, with The Magician's Nephew being placed first, and that of his mother, who thought the order of publication was more appropriate.

This would be affected if the reader has already been introduced to Narnia in The Magician's Nephew and discovered the origins of Narnia, the wardrobe and the lamp post.

Indeed, the narrative of the The Magician's Nephew appears to assume a reader has already read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and is now being shown its beginnings.

The Magician's Nephew has similar biblical allusions, reflecting aspects of The Book of Genesis such as the creation, original sin and temptation.

He specifically does so in The Magician's Nephew when a ' long warm breath ' gives life to Narnia.

The Magician's Nephew suggests two opposing approaches to nature, a good approach associated with Aslan as creator and an evil approach associated with human deviation from divine intentions and the harmony of a natural order.

The Magician's Nephew refers to these books in the opening of the novel as though their events were true, mentioning the setting of the piece as being when " Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road ".

In addition to being set in the same period and location as several of Nesbit's stories, The Magician's Nephew also and has some similarities with Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet ( 1906 ).

They also manage to transport the queen of ancient Babylon to London and she is the cause of a riot ; a very similar event takes place in The Magician's Nephew when Polly and Digory transport Queen Jadis to London and she also causes a similar disturbance.

In the Chronicles of Narnia, book 1 The Magician's Nephew, the mythos specifically explains that magic is a power available on other worlds, not available on earth.

Although it was written and published first, it is chronologically the second book after The Magician's Nephew.

Her name Jadis appears in one proclamation in this book, and Lewis's later prequel The Magician's Nephew tells of her origin and how she came to the Narnian world.

The Narnia book The Magician's Nephew in its second paragraph says " In those days Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

In Chapter IV of the book, an owl speculates that the Lady of the Green Kirtle — the enchantress of the Underworld — may be " one of the same crew " as the White Witch from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew.

Charn is a fictional city appearing in the 1955 book The Magician's Nephew, book six in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, written as a prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

In The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book to be published but the first in the chronology of Narnia, Digory is a young boy.

Examples of this series include works from the Chronicles of Narnia, where the fifth book published, The Horse and His Boy, is actually set during the time of the first book, and the sixth book published, The Magician's Nephew is actually set long before the first book.

Chapter 13 of the book Magician's Magic by Paul Curry describes a dinner party during World War II at which a magician named Harry Green performed the trick for Winston Churchill.

Polly is introduced in The Magician's Nephew-which was the sixth book in the series to be published but is first in the internal chronology of Narnia.

Walden Media, the company responsible for the film adaptations of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, has confirmed that the next film will be The Magician's Nephew rather than The Silver Chair.

20th Century Fox, Walden, and the C. S. Lewis Estate finally decided that The Magician's Nephew would be the basis for the next movie following the release of the 2010 film The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Wagner of SF Reviews said " The Magician's Nephew may not be the best of the Narnia novels, but it's a brisk and funny tale certain to delight its intended young audience ", saying that it may not satisfy readers in their teenage years and older.

The Story of the Amulet written by Edith Nesbit also contains scenes that can be considered as sources to sequences presenting Jadis, mostly in The Magician's Nephew.

After seeing a vision of King Tirian of Narnia pleading for their help in England, Peter and Edmund go to the Ketterleys ' old home in London to dig up the magic rings that Professor Kirke buried in the yard as a boy in The Magician's Nephew to be used by Eustace and Jill to reach Narnia.

This style failed to catch on, and their first two LP's, 1974's Magician's Holiday and 1977's The Gap Band ( not to be confused with their 1979 album ) failed to chart or produce any charting singles.

These emblems can also be seen on the Magician's table in the Magician card ( Card I )).

Players must simply swap their default headgear to use the exploit — any Magic-User wearing a Hood ( the Thief's default hat ) or any Thief that wears a Magician's Hat ( the Magic-User's starting hat ) cannot be killed from any standard damage in the game ( the character will be reduced to 1 hit point but will not be killed ).