The Last Battle
Children's fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis, 1956 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Last Battle is a portal 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.[1][3]
Author | C. S. Lewis |
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Illustrator | Pauline Baynes |
Cover artist | Pauline Baynes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | The Chronicles of Narnia |
Genre | Children's fantasy novel, Christian literature |
Publisher | The Bodley Head |
Publication date | 4 September 1956 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 184 pp (first edition)[1] 42,854 words (US)[2] |
ISBN | 978-0-00-671682-2 (full-colour; Collins, 1998) |
OCLC | 752428300 |
LC Class | PZ8.L48 Las[3] |
Preceded by | The Magician's Nephew |
Text | The Last Battle online |
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.[lower-alpha 1] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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."[5]