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When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan attempts to lead his people to a glorious new paradise.
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Summary edit
Shift and Puzzle go looking out in the woods like they do every afternoon but they thought of an idea to get people to think puzzle was Aslan. But puzzle wasn't very bright so he had to pretend to speak some other language so Shift was his translator. People would give puzzle food and fancy... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Lord Shift: A selfish, greedy, and evil Ape.
- Puzzle: A Donkey who is friends with Shift and very passive in the face of his plans. He thinks he is "not the clever one" and Shift doesn't treat him very well. Shift makes him pretend to be Aslan, which he does not like.
- King Tirian: The last of the Kings of Narnia.
- Jewel: A Unicorn, and a dear friend to King Tirian.
- Roonwit: A Centaur in service to Tirian.
- Tash: The god of the Calormenes. It has four arms, the head of a vulture, and Men are sacrificed to it.
- Ginger: A tom Cat in league with Shift and Rishda.
- Aslan: The Great Lion, who all the loyal Narnians believe in, as apposed to Tash.
- Eustace Clarence Scrubb: A friend of Narnia and cousin to the Pevensies, who returns with Jill to fight in the Last Battle.
- Jill Pole: A friend of Narnia, who returns with Eustace to fight in the Last Battle.
- Digory Kirke: A friend of Narnia, who comes to Aslan's country. Present at the birth of Narnia.
- Polly Plummer: A friend of Narnia, who comes to Aslan's country. Present at the birth of Narnia.
- Peter Pevensie: The High King of Narnia.
- Edmund Pevensie: A former King of Narnia under Peter.
- Lucy Pevensie: A Queen of Narnia under Peter.
- Griffle: The leader of the skeptical Dwarfs.
- Dwarf Poggin: A faithful Dwarf who joins Tirian and the children.
- Rishda Tarkaan: A Calormene lord (Tarkaan) in league with Shift and Ginger. He calls on Tash, but does not believe in him. He is the Captain of the Narnians Army.
- Farsight: An Eagle who gives a message to Tirian.
- Father Time: A sleeping Giant...
- Susan Pevensie: A Queen of Narnia under Peter. Mentioned, but not actually in the book.
- Narnia: Add a description of this character.
- Harpa Tarkaan
- Aunt Polly
- King Rilian
- Lady Polly
- Diggle
- Queen Lucy
- Emeth
- Frank
- Caspian
- Caldron Pool
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“...noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”
Roonwit -
“It seems, then, that the Stable seen from within and the Stable seen from without are two different places.”
Tirian -
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
Aslan -
“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?”
Emeth -
“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
Aslan -
“In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
Queen Lucy
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“You see,” said Aslan. “They will not let us help them. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
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“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.
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“There was a real railway accident,” said Aslan softly. “Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadowlands—dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
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Yet I have been seeking Tash all my days. Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.
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Tirian had never dreamed that one of the results of an Ape’s setting up a false Aslan would be to stop people from believing in the real one.
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“Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
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“Grown-up, indeed,” said the Lady Polly. “I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she’ll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. Her whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one’s life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can.”
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And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Narnia: The land of Talking Beasts, Dryads, Dwarfs, Fauns and other magical creatures.
- Calormen: A cruel southern empire that has desired to conquer Narnia for centuries.
- Cauldron Pool: A pool into which a high waterfall pours, under the cliffs at the western end of Narnia
- Cair Paravel: The capital of Narnia and the castle of its kings.
- Lantern Waste: A forest land in western Narnia, where a lamp post stands in the middle of the wood.
- Stable Hill: A hill where a stable hiding a disguised Puzzle is built, near Lantern Waste.
- New Narnia
First Sentence edit
In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an Ape.
Table of Contents edit
1. By Caldron Pool
2. The Rashness of the King
3. The Ape in Its Glory
4. What Happened That Night
5. How Help Came to the King
6. A Good Night's Work
7. Mainly About Dwarfs
8. What News the Eagle Brought
9. The Great Meeting on Stable Hill
10. Who Will Go Into the Stable?
11. The Pace Quickens
12. Through the Stable Door
13. How the Dwarfs Refused to Be Taken In
14. Night Falls on Narnia
15. Further Up and Further In
16. Farewell to Shadowlands
Themes & Symbolism edit
Series & Lists edit
This is book 7 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia. (standard series)
Preceded by The Silver Chair.
This is book 22 of 216 in Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 (2011). (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- C. S. Lewis (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 228
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 228
Awards edit
- Carnegie Medal (1956)
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- Dewey: 828'.912
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