Readers might quibble over Lewis’s categorisation here, and decide that what he is outlining is a distinction without a difference (perhaps clouded by his Christianity, and his unwillingness to see his children’s books as ‘mere’ allegory for Christianity, but instead as something more direct and powerful).īut if we stick with mid-twentieth-century fiction and animals for a moment, we can find an example of unequivocal allegory: George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945), which we have analysed here. Lewis: he wrote a whole scholarly work, The Allegory of Love, about medieval and Renaissance allegory. Perhaps this is a distinction without a difference to many readers, but it’s worth bearing in mind that if anyone should know what allegory is, it’s C. We might think of this as something like the distinction between simile and metaphor: simile is like allegory, because one thing is like something else, whereas in metaphor, one thing is the other thing.Īslan is not like Jesus (allegory): he is Jesus’ equivalent in Narnia.
But he doesn’t: he is Jesus, if Narnia existed and a deity decided to walk among the people of that world. In short, Lewis rejects the idea that his Narnia books are allegory because, for them to qualify as allegorical, Aslan would have to ‘represent’ Jesus. Lewis didn’t regard them as allegory: ‘In reality,’ he wrote, Aslan ‘is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, “What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?” This is not allegory at all.’
Lewis book(s) that are Christian allegory, right?’ But C. This is a stand-alone novel, but if you would like journey back to Narnia, read The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia.Say ‘ Chronicles of Narnia’ or ‘ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and many people will say, ‘Oh, the C. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has been captivating readers of all ages for over sixty years.
Journey into the land beyond the wardrobe! The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change. The interior includes gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Pauline Baynes, the original illustrator of Narnia.įour adventurous siblings-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie-step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. The full-color jacket features art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. A beautiful hardcover edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in C.
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