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The chronicles of narnia first book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 847-8, the following footnote is added to this letter: I never keep notes of that sort of thing and never remember dates. I’m not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last, but I found I was wrong. ![]() When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. ![]() The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. I think I agree with your order for reading the books more than with your mother's. The boy preferred internal chronological order (starting with The Magician's Nephew) while his mother preferred publication order (starting with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe). The answer lies in a letter which Lewis wrote, dated April 1957, to a young American fan named Laurence Kreig. But you've asked only why publishers changed the order, which is much easier to answer objectively than which order is "best"/preferable. The question of reading order for The Chronicles of Narnia is a complicated one, with much debate even among avid fans of the series. ![]()
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