The Chronicles of Narnia

By C.S. Lewis

Book Overview

Experience The Chronicles of Narnia in its entirety with this must-have paperback box set, complete with the seven books in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series. C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060765453
• ISBN13: 9780060765453
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.9" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent presentation of a well loved classic

Although commonly categorized as a children's book, C. S. Lewis has a way of enrapturing all audiences with his cleverly depicted scenes of otherworldy beauty and foreign flora and fauna, woven together with very familiar narratives of life, love and loss. I read the Narnia series as a child and have returned to it repeatedly, even as an adult. This series, I hope, will be a generational favourite. (Personal favourite: The Horse and His Boy).

Enjoying my order

I always loved the Narnia movies and would watch them daily. Now that I got the chronicles of Narnia I can read all the books and see what changes they did when I read the book and se what wasn’t in the movies

Top Quality Edition

I'm not going to comment on the actual books contained in this all in one volume, but rather on the quality of the hardback edition itself. Often these all in one volumes are printed on poor quality paper, and have poor bindings - happily this is very much not the case here. The paper used has a silky feel, and you feel confident that the quality binding will keep the book intact for many years. Considering it's full retail price is about $30, the $17 price tag is great, adding to the value of this edition. If you are looking for a collector edition quality version of these novels, you won't go far wrong. The only better version I've come across is at Eastern Press, who usually charge at least $40 per book (sometimes as much as $60) - but their books are only for the most anal of collectors. I only mention them for those that have been disappointed with collector editions of other great fantasy novels, such as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit - as well as an awesome version of the Altas of Middle Earth, or Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series.

Fantastic!

This is a FANTASTIC Audio production. The actors reading the books do a superb job: to the point that at times I don't believe it is the same person reading the different parts. They put such enthusiasm and character in to the voices and the readings that it makes the book come alive. If I have to mention a criticism it would be this: I tried listening to this on a stereo system but the volume variations in the readers intonation is too much. At times I had to turn the volume on the stereo way up to hear the softer parts of the recital and then it would be too loud. Listening to this on headphones is the way to go!