The Wisdom of Narnia. Литагент HarperCollins USD

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      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