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- proper noun fiction A land in which a series of seven children’s books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.
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Only on THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN on Blu-ray Disc can fans take a 360-degree look behind the scenes of the castle raid sequence and get unique access to the secrets of how this latest adventure to Narnia was pulled off.
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One might imagine that Gnostic Aslan as a weaker paraclete, one whose abandonment of Narnia is only the necessary relocation of a limited force of light called away to battle evil on another front, a Phildickian saviour-in-hiding who “must invade reality in order to redeem it”.
Thoughts on Narnia Hal Duncan 2009
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The problem with Narnia is this rather dishonest attempt to teach kiddies how The World Really Is by other means.
mrissa: books read, late March mrissa 2010
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I thought even the appearances of Aslan in Narnia owed something to the ‘Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ chapter.
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In a sense, it was an arranged marriage: My parents read to me as a child, so I was immersed in Narnia, in Middle Earth, and the eerie world of Meg Murry long before I knew that there was such a thing as science fiction.
MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Science Fiction? 2009
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The drama knows that deeper than any such nonsense, Narnia is founded on the rules of Story.
Thoughts on Narnia Hal Duncan 2009
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The drama knows that deeper than any such nonsense, Narnia is founded on the rules of Story.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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So I picked up A Field Guide to the Birds: Eastern Land and Water Birds more or less at random from the top of my stacks of Grandpa books, and oh, you guys, you guys, I may as well be in Narnia here.
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One might imagine that Gnostic Aslan as a weaker paraclete, one whose abandonment of Narnia is only the necessary relocation of a limited force of light called away to battle evil on another front, a Phildickian saviour-in-hiding who “must invade reality in order to redeem it”.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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It's possible that I read C.S. Lewis before, but Narnia is allegory, right?
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