The Estate of C.S. Lewis gratefully acknowledges The Marion E. Wade Collection, Wheaton College, Illinois USA, for allowing the manuscripts in its possession to be photographed and to the Rev. Walter Hooper for making available the material in his possession.

Although The Magician’s Nephew was written several years after C.S. Lewis first began THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA®, he wanted it to be read as the first book in the series. HarperCollins is happy to present these books in the order in which Professor Lewis preferred.

The Chronicles of Narnia®, Narnia® and all book titles, characters and locales original to The Chronicles of Narnia are trademarks of C.S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Use without permission is strictly prohibited.

The seven Chronicles of Narnia (in reading order) were first published in Great Britain as follows:

‘Littera Scripta Manet’, ‘Tararo’ and ‘The Life of Lord John Big of Bigham’

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2008

Boxen: Childhood Chronicles before Narnia first published in Great Britain in an abridged form as Boxen by William Collins and Co. Ltd and by Fount Paperbacks, London 1985

The Chronicles of Narnia

www.narnia.com

Cover designs by Carla Weise

The Proprietor on behalf of the Authors hereby assert their respective moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks

HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication

Source ISBN: 9780007528097

Version: 2017-01-10

Contents

Title Page

Introduction

The Magician’s Nephew

Dedication

Chapter One: The Wrong Door

Chapter Two: Digory and His Uncle

Chapter Three: The Wood Between the Worlds

Chapter Four: The Bell and the Hammer

Chapter Five: The Deplorable Word