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| Author | C. S. Lewis |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Pauline Baynes |
| Cover artist | Pauline Baynes |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Genre | Children's fantasy novel, Christian literature |
| Publisher | Geoffrey Bles |
Publication date | 7 September 1953 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 217 (first edition)[1] 51,022 words (US)[2] |
| ISBN | 978-0-00-671681-5 (Collins, 1998; full colour) |
| OCLC | 1304139 |
| LC Class | PZ8.L48 Si[3] |
| Preceded by | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
| Followed by | The Horse and His Boy |
| Text | The Silver Chair online |
The Silver Chair is a children's portal fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1953.[4] It was the fourth of seven novels published in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956), but became volume six in recent editions sequenced in chronological order to Narnian history. Macmillan US published a revised American edition within the calendar year.[1][3] Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.[1][3]
The novel is set primarily in the world of Narnia, decades after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader there but less than a year later in England.[a] King Caspian X is now an old man, but his son and only heir, Prince Rilian, is missing. Aslan the lion sends two children from England to Narnia on a mission to resolve the mystery: Eustace Scrubb, from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and his classmate, Jill Pole. In England, Eustace and Jill are students at a horrible boarding school, Experiment House.
The Silver Chair is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Colin Hardie, a member of the Inklings with Lewis, and was adapted and filmed as a BBC television series of six episodes in 1990.
- ^ a b c "Bibliography: The Silver Chair". ISFDB. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ "Scholastic Catalog – Book Information". Src.scholastic.com. Retrieved 23 June 2014.[permanent dead link]
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"The silver chair" (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record.
"The silver chair" (first US edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2012-12-08. - ^ Nicholls, Peter (2016). "Lewis, C S". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (3rd ed.). New York: St Martin's Griffin.
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