Contents

Foreword

Simple Pleasures

Kindness & Loyalty

Free & Equal

Creativity

Cleverness/Clever Council

Honour

Responsibility

Friendship & Fellowship

Wisdom of Aslan

Everyday Truths

Intelligence & Reason

Silly Sense

Common Sense

Bravery

A Lesson Learned

True Leadership

Fears

Reaping Evil

Bad Choices

Philosophy of Puddleglum

The Effect of Beauty

Faith

Heart’s Desires

Fortitude

The End & the Beginning

About the Author and Illustrator

Copyright

About the Publisher

Abbreviations used in this book:

MN—The Magician’s Nephew

LWW—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

HHB—The Horse and His Boy

PC—Prince Caspian

VDT—The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

SC—The Silver Chair

LB—The Last Battle

Foreword

The Wisdom of Narnia

Captivated by the spirited adventures of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, generations of readers have also been touched and inspired by their timeless wisdom, simple truths, and gentle humour. We come to understand, through excerpts from all seven books, the power of this special place that has been so important to readers for over fifty years.

Simple Pleasures

There’s nothing to beat good freshwater fish if you eat it when it has been alive half an hour ago and has come out of the pan half a minute ago.

LWW: 74

To sleep under the stars, to drink nothing but well water and to live chiefly on nuts and wild fruit, was a strange experience for Caspian after his bed with silken sheets in a tapestried chamber at the castle, with meals laid out on gold and silver dishes in the anteroom, and attendants ready at his call. But he had never enjoyed himself more. Never had sleep been more refreshing nor food tasted more savoury.

PC: 84

Kindness & Loyalty

When it was almost dark Tirian heard a light pitter-patter of feet and saw some small creatures coming toward him…. Then, in a moment, they were all standing up on their hind legs, laying their cool paws on his knees and giving his knees snuffly animal kisses…. They fed him with oatcakes and fresh butter, and then with some more wine.

“Now hand up the water,” said the first Mouse, “and I’ll wash the King’s face. There is blood on it.”

LB: 42–44

Free & Equal

“We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia, you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.”

—Bree the Horse

HHB: 32

Creativity

All this time the Lion’s song, and his stately prowl, to and fro, backward and forward, was going on…. When a line of dark firs sprang up on a ridge… [Polly] felt that they were connected with a series of deep, prolonged notes which the Lion had sung a second before. And when he burst into a rapid series of lighter notes she was not surprised to see primroses suddenly appearing in every direction. Thus…she felt quite certain that all the things were coming (as she said) “out of the Lion’s head.”

MN: 115

Cleverness/Clever Council

“Send Glenstorm, Sire. No one ever laughed at a Centaur.”

—Trufflehunter

PC: 178

“As we birds say, nests before eggs.”

HHB: 73–74

“See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.”

HHB: 65

“Easily in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot!”

—Sallowpad the Raven

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