The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

288 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2005

ISBN:: 978-0-00-720232-4
Goodreads:: 84369

(3 reviews)

The Last Battle is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by The Bodley Head in 1956. It was the seventh and final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). Like the other novels in the series, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.The Last Battle is set almost entirely in the Narnia world and the English children who participate arrive only in the middle of the narrative. The novel is set some 200 Narnian years after The Silver Chair and about 2500 years (and 49 Earth years) since the creation of the world narrated in The Magician's Nephew. A false Aslan is set up in the north-western borderlands and conflict between true and false Narnians merges with that between Narnia and Calormen, whose people worship Tash. It concludes with termination of the world by Aslan, after …

The Last Battle is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by The Bodley Head in 1956. It was the seventh and final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). Like the other novels in the series, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.The Last Battle is set almost entirely in the Narnia world and the English children who participate arrive only in the middle of the narrative. The novel is set some 200 Narnian years after The Silver Chair and about 2500 years (and 49 Earth years) since the creation of the world narrated in The Magician's Nephew. A false Aslan is set up in the north-western borderlands and conflict between true and false Narnians merges with that between Narnia and Calormen, whose people worship Tash. It concludes with termination of the world by Aslan, after a "last battle" that is practically lost. Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year.Lewis and The Last Battle won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The author wrote to illustrator Baynes, "is it not rather 'our' medal? I'm sure the illustrations were taken into account as well as the text."

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Paul reviewed The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) by C. S. Lewis

A disappointing end to an otherwise good series

1 star

A disappointing end to the series. As well as the actual ‘last battle’ being a flop, the main characters engage in blackface (but don’t worry, they can return to being ‘white Narnians’), and the enemies are referred to as ‘darkies’. Any bad behaviour by male characters is told off for being feminine (e.g. ‘scolding like a kitchen girl’) and one female character doesn’t return because she’s too busy with makeup and lipstick. This book could do with a warning like some TV series and films: was written in the 1950s and contains references which would (hopefully) not be published today.

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