THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE C. S. LEWIS Book Two THE LION, WITCH THE AND THE WARDROBE Illustrated by PAULINE BAYNES To Lucy Barfield My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis Contents Map vii One Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe 3 Two What Lucy Found There 9 Three Edmund and the Wardrobe 19 Four Turkish Delight 26 Five Back on This Side of the Door 33 Six Into the Forest 40 Seven A Day with the Beavers 47 Eight What Happened after Dinner 57 Nine In the Witch’s House 64 Ten The Spell Begins to Break 73 Eleven Aslan Is Nearer 80 Twelve 90 Peter’s First Battle Thirteen Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time 98 Fourteen The Triumph of the Witch 106 Fifteen Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time 114 Sixteen What Happened about the Statues 123 Seventeen The Hunting of the White Stag 131 About the Author Other Books in the Narnia Series Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher Map