Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Magician's Nephew
    The Magician's Nephew
    The Magician's Nephew
    Audiobook3 hours

    The Magician's Nephew

    Written by C. S. Lewis

    Narrated by Kenneth Branagh

    4.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Narnia . . . a land frozen in eternal winter . . . a country waiting to be set free

    Witness the creation of a magical land in The Magician's Nephew, the first title in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has captivated readers of all ages for over sixty years.

    On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible.

    This is a stand-alone novel, but if you want to journey back to Narnia, read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 24, 2005
    ISBN9780060854447
    The Magician's Nephew
    Author

    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló. Sus contribuciones a la crítica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantástica y teología popular le trajeron fama y aclamación a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribió más de treinta libros, lo cual le permitió alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aún atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada año. Sus más distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Crónicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.

    Related to The Magician's Nephew

    Titles in the series (8)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    Children's Imagination & Play For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Sep 1, 2022

      First prize 10 and under Tang Li, age 9 Palmetto Bay, FL My name is Anisa. I was in Hawaii on vacation. I enjoyed sipping refreshing drinks, overlooking the turquoise ocean, and dancing with others, before I overheard that the priceless Fire Ring wa

      10 min read

    • Article

      Double Dare You

      Jun 8, 2021

      Double Dare You
      4 min read

    • Article

      Welcome To My Gothic House Of Horrors

      Feb 9, 2022

      An echo of Arthurian legend has visited my home – and, purely for the variety, thanks must be given for that. For so long, the literary flavour clinging to the property has tended exclusively towards the Gothic. Anyone glancing in from the street wil

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Grand Canal, Venice, 1970

      Mar 1, 2024

      The Grand Canal, Venice, 1970
      8 min read

    • Article

      Child’s play

      Dec 21, 2021

      Child’s play
      5 min read

    • Article

      Good Bones

      Mar 19, 2020

      Good Bones
      18 min read

    • Article

      The Show Boy

      Oct 9, 2019

      The Show Boy
      9 min read

    • Article

      Clean SWEEP

      Aug 31, 2022

      Clean SWEEP
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Joke

      Sep 1, 2020

      Although best known for his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury was also a prolific writer of short stories, having published his first while still a teenager. This previously unpublished story likely dates to 1950, the year The Martian Chronicle

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Hound and the Hidden Homework

      Feb 1, 2019

      The Hound and the Hidden Homework
      4 min read

    • Article

      Marco

      Mar 1, 2022

      THE ALLEY STANK . Marco could feel the damp soaking into his tunic as he pressed his back against the wall, trying to seem like part of the shadows. He cursed himself. How could he have been so stupid? He knew if he stayed out after dark they might f

      6 min read

    • Article

      Alpharetta

      Jun 1, 2020

      My brother William, 10 years old to my 13, visibly shook in the big feather bed and gave me his famous zombie gaze; he had a way of somehow flattening his face so that his dark brown eyes, science-fictionally wet at all times, nailed you—a look of di

      17 min read

    • Article

      Plot 4b

      Jun 27, 2018

      Plot 4b
      3 min read

    • Article

      HOME Is Where The Heart Is

      Jul 21, 2021

      HOME Is Where The Heart Is
      5 min read

    • Article

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”

      Oct 6, 2019

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”
      7 min read

    • Article

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”

      Oct 9, 2019

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Wildest Place OF ALL

      Mar 2, 2022

      The Wildest Place OF ALL
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Iron Lady

      Feb 22, 2024

      The Iron Lady
      2 min read

    • Article

      Getaway Driver

      Feb 10, 2022

      Getaway Driver
      11 min read

    • Article

      His Lordship’s LAST GAME

      Jan 24, 2024

      His Lordship’s LAST GAME
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Great Inventor: Back To The Future

      Jun 5, 2019

      Einstein really did have a daughter out of marriage in 1912, and she really did go missing and was never found. Hands up whose father is Einstein. Just me. It seems normal now, but I was teased at school for it. My father was secretly building a time

      2 min read

    • Article

      La Befana

      Dec 1, 2022

      La Befana
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Dullard

      Jun 5, 2019

      The villagers of Yockenthwaite knew him as ‘Jack Dull’, ‘Jack Dolt,’ or sometimes just ‘The Dullard’. His real name was John Dullard, last in a long, illustrious line of Dullards, and a man – so they said – of quite miraculous stupidity. The kind of

      7 min read

    • Article

      ‘Death? I Can’t Wait For The Adventure!’ Most Haunted’s Yvette Fielding On Ghosts, Sceptics And The Afterlife

      Oct 4, 2022

      The First Lady of the Paranormal, also known as the Queen of the Night, is waiting for me at Crewe railway station in a bright red vintage Mini. I just about fold myself into the front seat. She cackles, performs a miraculous U-turn and puts her foot

      8 min read

    • Article

      Where TWO RIVERS MEET

      Apr 3, 2024

      Where TWO RIVERS MEET
      6 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Jun 16, 2022

      A genuine miracle occurred at the art opening of the Blinky 40th Anniversary Exhibition at California State University Northridge Gallery in Southern California on 2 February 2019. An artwork by Erika Ostrander of the “Shroud of Blinky” was found wee

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Magician's Nephew

    4.5/5

    1,100 ratings172 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      The Magician's Nephew has a split personality: Digory and Polly are great characters, and Lewis writes them lovingly. I always get a little bored at the start of Genesis, however, and that's one of the reasons I dislike the re-ordering of the series in time-order instead of the order in which they were written. In this book you don't have any time to develop feeling for Aslan; you're just told to respect him through Digory. This story, and the character of Aslan, is fairly meaningless without the sacrifice in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which is why that book should come first in the series. Take that, dying wishes of C.S. Lewis.At any rate, this book falls into the "not as good as L,W+W but still fun to read" camp.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was honestly one of the best books I have ever read- 10/10 I definitely recommend.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book is the very first in the Chronicles of Narnia series. It is so awesome because it shows how exactly the world was first introduced to Narnia. Where did the closet from the first Narnia movie come from? Who is the White Witch? How was Narnia made? These and other questions are answered. Just like in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, there are some epic scenes and deep life lessons. Don’t be turned down because this book was written for kids. C.S. Lewis tales are meant for everyone. By reading this, you will feel both the awe of a child and the gratitude of a professor who learns something new that he thought he already knew so well.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I think it’s better to read the Magicians Nephew before the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe because around the end of the book there are things that just blow Your MIND

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Great book but let’s tell the truth it’s nothing compared to the rest of the Narnia series.
    • 5/5
      I read every book, starting with a lion, the witch and the wardrobe, and then I realized that we forgot to read this book, and when I read it, everything in the second book made sense, and I thought that this book was full of happiness and suspension the ending was great. This book is amazing.
    • 5/5
      It is Good. Now I need to add Seven more Words.
    • 5/5
      So good!!! I'm so glad there are more to read about Narnia.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book! Will continue to listen to the rest of the series.
    • 2/5
      As a child, I was enchanted by the worlds in The Magician's Nephew - the descriptions of Charn, the creation of Narnia, and the Woods Between the Worlds - but I found myself cringing at the decidedly unsubtle allegory when I reread the book recently.There is no avoiding the fact that this book is about Good versus Evil, nor that it is attempting to retell one of the creation stories from Genesis with the creation of Narnia. Everyone seems rather wooden and pushed into the rolls Lewis wants them to take and there is no real suspense or wonder. The good end happily and the bad do not, except for Jadis who must play the roll of Eden's serpent.Furthermore, I was rather appalled at the treatment of Polly, the female Ketterleys, and Nellie/Queen Helen. I wish that I could better explain what I find so unsettling about them, but I can only point vaguely at their uselessness. I really didn't get a positive, empathetic feeling towards any of the women in the story, except for Mrs Kirke - and I suspect she only slides by because she's Digory's mother and she's ill.So, that's that. It's an interesting little book, but steeped in 1950s children's book conventions, and it could use a good deal of updating to match it with modern sensibilities and a more dynamic writer. Oh, and: according to one of the front pages of my copy, Lewis intended it to be read first among the Chronicles of Narnia, but I must disagree with him. To have such a blatantly allegorical story first in the set is to lose much of the wonder of discovering Narnia through the wardrobe with the Pevensie children. Besides which, much of the suspense and wonder in the second book are dashed away with all the background information that The Magician's Nephew provides.
    • 5/5
      I have the whole series on audio CD and they are some of my fav ones! The readers for each book do an amazing job bringing the characters to life!!
    • 5/5
      The first book in the Narnia series is a great read, as with all of the others there are religious undercurrents and besides that it is a wonderful story don't let the fact that the main protagonists are children this book is for the adult readers too, if you haven't read it then pick it up right away.
    • 3/5
      I have the whole set of the Narnia Chronicles and so I began with this one; I didn't know much about the whole Narnia thing, but since a student bought me the whole set, I thought I'd make a stab:Two things first: There are apparently some Biblical parallels which smarter minds than mine have observed. Two, it's apparently recognized as a great collection.Narnia is this other world with this lion--some personification of what is all good and cool about life whom is trying to preserve this other world--with its living creatures as a good thing, but unfortunately these children from England and their dippy Uncle somehow--through the great magical transportational express of literature and imagination have entered and brought the witch, an arrogant amazon, into a very delicately balanced moral preserve. Anyway, the little dude has a mission by the lion to go get some silver apples..and thus the fire is lit for the whole series (I think).Look, I don't know if The Magician's Nephew is a great piece of literature, but I will continue reading the set..
    • 5/5
      One of the best books in the series.
    • 5/5
      Great start to the Narnia series. Young or Old, it is a great read.
    • 5/5
      The book itself is fantastic, but the narration is even more fantastic! This performer is really enjoyable to listen to!
    • 5/5
      Not only is the story fantastical, the narrator really brings you there. I found myself listening while driving and yet vividly encapsulated in the land of Narnia. I see it as a hopeful tale of what happens when sun doesn’t conquer a new world and when temptation is not given into. 10/10 worth every bit of your time!!
    • 3/5
      when I listened it randomly cut out ,
      Same with horse and his boy

      People reading this ,
      You should most DEFINITELY read the lion the witch and the wardrobe first
    • 5/5
      I like the recemblence between the book and the life of a Christian!!!!
    • 3/5
      Excellent classic. Highly recommend to any children to read and experience the magic of Narnia.
    • 5/5
      I love that it is adventurous ,magical, and TRUE .
    • 5/5
      Don’t take it very seriously nor literally especially if you’re a Christian, some of its theology though it’s fantasy will stumble you if you’re a weak christian
    • 5/5
      Timeless, in all the best ways. It reminds one of the simple joys of being a child.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite stories read by one of my favorite actors!!!!
    • 4/5
      Eerie creation story. I like it much better than the apocalyptic "The Last Battle"
    • 4/5
      it's great book, it talks about Digory and Polly were sent to another magic world by bad uncle Andrew, and their adventure in that world, finally when they tried to go back they accidentally went to another brand new world which just be born. One of the great thing of this book I think is that everyone has a very pure heart. Even bad people don't really have bad ideas. This book brought me a briefly peace while I was stressed out.
    • 5/5
      This book would be good to use when talking about how a fantasy world is formed. I think students will like this book because it shows the creation of a new world and the relationship between the uncle and everyone else.
    • 4/5
      Read the whole series. Excellent.
    • 5/5
      I think this is my favorite Narnia book. Digory Kirke (later known as the professor in LWW) and his friend Polly Plummer are sent to another world by Digory's uncle, an amateur magician who doesn't really understand what he's meddling with. There they see the creation of Narnia, but also the evil which has tainted it. It's a wonderful and thoughtful retelling of Genesis, as well as being a good adventure story
    • 3/5
      The books starts off by introducing Digory and Polly. They go to Digory's uncle's attic even though he said not to. His uncle tricks them into taking a ring. It took them to Narnia; they have to answer many questions to get out of there. When they get out they are no longer in the attic. The book just ended but there is a sequel. -SJ