288 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2005
The Last Battle is a high fantasy novel for children by 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 …
The Last Battle is a high fantasy novel for children by 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. Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year.Lewis and The Last Battle won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The author wrote to illustrator Baynes, "is it not rather 'our' medal? I'm sure the illustrations were taken into account as well as the text."
My grandson and I have finished this magnificent series. He rates this last book at 1 million stars. Sadly, this rather blows out the traditional Goodreads ratings scheme. In deference to Goodreads, we show the rating as a mere 5 stars. The last three chapters almost made my grandson cry because they were so happy; and that's why he rates it 1 million stars.
It was pretty dfferent than the others. Doesn't feel that much like a fairytale anymore. The ending was foggy and confusing, it was really unexpected though. Makes me feel like everything I thought about that world was a lie. SPOLIER: For a while I thought that Aslan was god, but then he told us that "No, possibly the biggest message behind the book and my character isn't true, although I hid messages about it before. Sorry." Disapponting :c SPOLIER over.
I still like his writing style, the book is gripping, and the ending is overall peaceful, you just have to get the feeling of it, like some impressionist painting.
It's filled with actions and misses almost all emotions. 3 stars.
I used to love these books, but they've started making me sad. C. S. Lewis was not a big fan of women.
