The Last Battle
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- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- First published
- 1956
- Editions
- 106
- Subjects
- Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction, Narnia (imaginary place), fiction, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile
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Key facts
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Illustrator
- Pauline Baynes
- Cover artist
- Pauline Baynes
- Language
- English
- Series
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Genre
- Children's fantasy novel, Christian literature
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Publication date
- 4 September 1956
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardcover)
- Pages
- 184 pp (first edition) , 42,854 words (US)
- Isbn
- 978-0-00-671682-2 (full-colour; Collins, 1998)
- Library of congress classification span
Article
The Last Battle is a portal fantasy novel written by British author 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.