The fifth in the series of the classic fantasy tales – The Chronicles of Narnia. Read by the unforgettable Sir Michael Hordern. The fifth in the series of the classic fantasy tales – The Chronicles of Narnia. Read by the unforgettable Sir Michael Hordern. “Stop it!” cried Eustace. “It’s some silly trick you are playing! Ow!” A great cold salt splash had broken right out of the frame and they were breathless from the smack of it, as well as being wet through. Lucy and Edmund, stuck with their awful cousin Eustace, suddenly find themselves in a picture of a sailing ship – the Dawn Treader – and realise they have been drawn back into the land of Narnia. They are reunited with old friends, the young King Caspian and Reepicheep the mouse on a voyage of discovery to the End of the World… “The magic of C. S. Lewis’s parallel universe never fades.” The Times Return to Narnia in the classic book for children of all ages Clive Staples Lewis, born in 1898, wrote many books for adults but the Narnia stories were his only works for children. The final title, The Last Battle, published in 1956, won the Carnegie Award, the highest mark of excellence in children’s literature. Return to Narnia in the classic book for children of all ages Requires internet connection for purchase, plus iPod or other Audible-compatible player or iTunes software on Mac OS X or Windows • Part of the Summer 2003 Narnia promotion. • Sir Michael Hordern’s warm narration of all seven Chronicles of Narnia is outstanding. Renowned for both film and TV over six decades, some of his best-known productions include The Bed-Sitting Room, Passport to Pimlico, Scrooge, Up Pompeii, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Paradise Postponed and Middlemarch. He died in 1995. • The music was specially composed and played by harpist Marisa Robles. • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was voted ‘Book of the Century’ in The Keith Barker Millennium Children’s Book Awards. • Abridged. Competition: The Secret Garden; The Hobbit; Alice in Wonderland; The Wind in the Willows; The Railway Children. by C. S. Lewis; Frances Hodgson Burnett; J. R. R. Tolkien
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