But Susan is left in the real world, with her siblings, parents and cousin all wiped out. All the Pevensy children (bar Susan, of course) discover they and their parents are dead at the end of the story and with a final 'yay!' like a brainwashed Rod and Todd Flanders, skip merrily up the steps to heaven. I just can't let the fate of Susan go, even days after finishing this book. But the 'deathbed conversion' of the false Aslan still allows him to go to Narn - I mean, Heaven. She was a Queen of Narnia, and saved it many times in battle. Susan, who seems to be discovering her sexuality, is denied entrance to Narnia. Thank goodness those pure white children are called upon once more to put things right! Oh, except for Susan, of course, who is apparently slutting around the real world because she can think of nothing but 'nylons and stockings' and as Peter says gravely, 'She is no longer a friend of Narnia.'Īnd that is the dangerous fundamentalist thought throughout this book. Those 'darkies' (yes, that's how they're referred to in the book, along with stinking of 'onions and garlic') are invading Narnia again, at the guidance of a monkey (groan for obvious racist parallels once more) parading around a false Aslan. It is racist, sexist, fundamentalist rhetoric disguised as children's literature. Now I realise that as a kid I was a lot smarter than I gave myself credit for, for 'The Last Battle' is an absolute shocker of a book. When I used to read the Chronicles as a kid, I would usually stop at Dawn Treader or Silver Chair. Re-live your childhood fantasies or discover for the first time what everyone will be talking about by Christmas and savour some of the best-loved stories ever written. Sporting breathtaking new photographic covers, these new adult editions of the seven Chronicles of Narnia now give everyone an opportunity to experience the adventures in their original form.

The second film is already in development. On 9 December 2005, Andrew (Shrek) Adamson's live-action film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be released by Disney, and it is already being hailed as the biggest film franchise of all time, guaranteed to appeal to adults and children across the globe. As the battle lines are drawn, old friends are summoned back to Narnia, though none can predict the outcome in this magnificent ending to the famous series. The last days of Narnia, and all hope seems lost as lies and treachery interweave to threaten the destruction of everything. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive 'P.S.' section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles. For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.

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