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The Last Battle
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fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis
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Within Vinony's link graph, The Last Battle is referenced by 165 other articles, and connects out to list of The Chronicles of Narnia characters, Narnia universe and Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
It sits within the topics 1956 British novels, 1956 children's books and 1956 fantasy novels.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Illustrator
- Pauline Baynes
- Cover artist
- Pauline Baynes
- Language
- English
- Series
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Genre
- Children's fantasy novel, Christian literature
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Publication date
- 4 September 1956
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardcover)
- Pages
- 184 pp (first edition) , 42,854 words (US)
- Isbn
- 978-0-00-671682-2 (full-colour; Collins, 1998)
- Library of congress classification span
- PZ8.L48 Las
- Preceded by
- The Magician's Nephew
- Text
- The Last Battle online
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Part of
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Award
- Carnegie Medal
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Series
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Follows
- The Silver Chair
- Main subject
- Narnia
- Narrative location
- Calormen
- Image
- Narnian.world.map.jpg
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- publication date
- 1956-09-04
- title
- The Last Battle
- inspired by
- Book of Revelation
- language of work or name
- English language
- takes place in fictional universe
- Narnia universe
- different from
- Assembly
- set in environment
- fictional country
- form of creative work
- novel
- illustrator
- Pauline Baynes
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Encyclopedic overview
The Last Battle is a portal fantasy novel written by British author C. S. Lewis, published by The Bodley Head in 1956. It was the seventh and final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). Like the other novels in the series, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.
The Last Battle is set almost entirely in the Narnia world and the English children who participate arrive only in the middle of the narrative. The novel is set some 200 Narnian years after The Silver Chair and about 2500 years (and 49 Earth years) since the creation of the world narrated in The Magician's Nephew. A false Aslan is set up in the north-western borderlands and conflict between true and false Narnians merges with that between Narnia and Calormen, whose people worship Tash. It concludes with termination of the world by Aslan, after a "last battle" that is practically lost.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Last Battle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.