- Paperback: 140 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co (December 1979)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0020519702
- ISBN-13: 978-0020519706
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
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4.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Good, July 7 2001
By A 12-year old reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Past Watchful Dragons: The Narnian Chronicles of C. S. Lewis (Paperback)
This book was exceptional and very helpful. I recommend it to anyone looking for more information about the Chronicles of Narnia or just as refernce. I have read all the books and this is truly informative and special. Every Narnia fan should try to get this book. I alsorecommend Paul F. Ford's-Companion to Narnia, it is 5 stars and is a good refernce encyclopedia about everything thing you need to know about Narnia and has beautiful illustrations.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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For all friends of Narnia!, Aug 6 2004
By foneman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Past Watchful Dragons: The Narnian Chronicles of C. S. Lewis (Paperback)
I love this little book. Besides having my favorite title of all-time for any book, it provides a lot of wonderful insight into CS Lewis' background and experience that led to him writing The Chronicles of Narnia. The title comes from the folowing Lewis quote:
"I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralyzed much of my own religion since childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feeelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But suppose by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday school associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could."
C.S Lewis certainly achieved his goal. Many non-beleivers reject not Christ and true Christianity but what they perceive them to be. Sometimes this error comes from a bad religious experience but more often people merely create a false idea of what Christianity is and then reject their own creation. Anyone who reads the Narnia books will certainly feel a love for Aslan. They may not even realize the parallels to Jesus but it can be the begininnning of understanding Christ.
The author, Walter Hooper was Lewis' personal secretary for several years and thus is uniquely qualified to write this book. His access to Lewis' papers led to incusion of one of the greatest passages in the book: the "Lefay Fragment". This is an ealy form of the Magicians Nephew that Hooper discoverd . It is a fascinating to read.
All in all a wonderful book. I'm surprised it is still out of print.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Chronicles of Narnia, July 7 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Past Watchful Dragons: The Narnian Chronicles of C. S. Lewis (Paperback)
This book was exceptional and very helpful. I recommend it to anyone looking for more information about the Chronicles of Narnia or just as refernce. I have read all the books and this is truly informative and special. Every Narnia fan should try to get this book. I alsorecommend Paul F. Ford's-Companion to Narnia, it is 5 stars and is a good refernce encyclopedia about everything thing you need to know about Narnia and has beautiful illustrations.
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