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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a C. S. Lewis classic, creatively layered with spiritual meanings that turn readers into lifelong wonderers, even wanderers in a sense, about the land of Narnia.
Here, Lewis expert Bruce Edwards takes readers “further up and further in” to the ever-rewarding details of this literary masterpiece that has also become one of the most anticipated major motion pictures of all time.
With friendly enthusiasm and storytelling gifts of his own, Edwards amplifies each chapter of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, also adding study questions for classrooms and casual discussion groups.
C. S. Lewis scholar Bruce Edwards writes, “I want Further Up and Further In to provide both novice and experienced readers something that will increase their enjoyment every time they come to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (or the movie made of it).
“A large part of what makes Narnia terrific, engrossing, and life changing is its ability not only to deliver a world that is strange and compelling but also to make our own world strange and compelling as well . . . A Narnian sojourn makes us dissatisfied with our world for all the right reasons and then points us to a pathway to our true home and our true identity. Indeed, that is what any reading of The Chronicles ought to evince and maybe even what a book about The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe should do as well!
“My job is to help you keep coming back to Narnia and finding it as exhilarating and as disarmingly fresh as the first time you visited it.”
Bruce Edwards is professor of English and associate dean for Distance Education and International Programs at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He is a preeminent C. S. Lewis scholar, regularly authoring books and literary articles on his life and works and maintaining a popular resource Web site about Lewis and the Inklings.
