Planet Narnia (Ward - paperback)

Author: Michael Ward

File under: Lewis

ISBN: 9780199738700

Binding: Paperback

Section: Chr-General

Subtitle: "The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis"

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery.