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Book Review of Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia

Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
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I enjoyed this collection of essays by various authors. Each one had a different theme or perspective into one of the Narnia books or into the series as a whole. One essay explored Lewis' descriptions of food in Narnia while reminding us that Lewis himself was still under war rationing; one explained in detail why Edmund is not only worthy of a school-girl crush, but is the only man in the series worthy of such; another explored Hitler's obsession with the occult, and how the war played into the Narnia books. I think four different authors quoted the same passage about Susan not beliving Lucy saw Aslan in Prince Caspian, but each of the four had a different point to draw from it. Very interesting.