The Silver Chair is the finest of the Chronicles of Narnia books. In certain ways, the storyline bears the fruit of all the others, and therefore it can take us most deeply into the world Lewis has created for us. It takes us to some of the most fanciful places—from the high cliff tops above the world, to the sightless Deep Realm far beneath it, with marshes and the Wild North in between. It introduces us to one of the series’ best characters (more on them later) and asks the most incisive questions.
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