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The Horse and His Boy
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The Horse and His Boy Prebound - 1980

by C. S. Lewis; Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)

How a talking horse and a boy prince saved Narnia from invasion.


About this book

The Horse and His Boy is a novel by C. S. Lewis. It was published in 1954, making it the fifth of seven books published in Lewis' series The Chronicles of Narnia. The books in this series are sometimes ordered chronologically in relation to the events in the books as opposed to the dates of their original publication. In this alternate ordering, The Horse and His Boy is the third book, being a midquel of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

From the publisher

How a talking horse and a boy prince saved Narnia from invasion.

First line

THIS IS THE STORY OF AN ADVENTURE that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him.

From the rear cover

Narnia ... where horses talk and hermits like company, where evil men turn into donkeys, where boys go into battle ... where the adventure begins. During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a boy named Shasta discovers he is not the son of Arsheesh, the Calormene fisherman, and decides to run far away to the North -- to Narnia. When he is mistaken for another runaway, Shasta is led to discover who he really is and even finds his real father.

First Edition Identification


The Horse and His Boy, fifth book, was published on 6 September 1954. The first edition of the book has brown buckram with brown lettering on the spine and front board.

Details

  • Title The Horse and His Boy
  • Author C. S. Lewis; Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)
  • Series Chronicles of Narnia
  • Binding Prebound
  • Pages 241
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Perfection Learning
  • Date August 1980
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780812424300 / 0812424301
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.05 x 4.09 x 0.72 in (17.91 x 10.39 x 1.83 cm)
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Reading level 970
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Catholic
    • Theometrics: Evangelical
    • Theometrics: Mainline
    • Topical: Home School
  • Library of Congress subjects Voyages and travels, Fantasy
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC