Inside Narnia: A Literary Analysis of The Chronicles
08/04/05
C. S. Lewis Expert Devin Brown to Release First Literary Analysis of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 2005—C. S. Lewis scholar Devin Brown will release Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Baker Books, Sept. 2005, $12.99), the first major literary analysis of its kind, before the anticipated Walden/Disney blockbuster movie hits theaters in December.
Inside Narnia features a chapter-by-chapter guide with insightful running background commentary and notes on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the origins of the Chronicles of Narnia, providing readers with depth, understanding and a lively discussion of the magical world of Narnia.
"Inside Narnia provides unique insight into the world of C. S. Lewis," Robert N. Hosack, senior acquisitions editor for Baker Books, said. "Brown is writing for those who are already intrigued by Lewis and the millions more who will discover Lewis for the first time with the release of the movie," Hosack added.
Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe features:
* A chapter-by-chapter exploration corresponding with chapters from the original book
* Insights about C. S. Lewis’s life, relationships, times
* The impact of the work of other writers who influenced Lewis, including J. R. R. Tolkien
* A wide selection of comments and opinions from other scholars
* A detailed examination of the characters, settings and messages throughout the text
* Literary connections and the influence of Lewis’s other works
"Devin Brown’s readers will be indebted to him for many years for his painstaking research and exhaustive analysis of the Lewisian universe," writes Lewis author Dr. Bruce Edwards.
"Inside Narnia should be on the shelf of all serious devotees of the Chronicles of Narnia," writes Don W. King, author of C. S. Lewis, Poet.
Devin Brown (Ph.D., University of South Carolina) has been writing and speaking about C. S. Lewis for over ten years. He is a professor of English at Asbury College, where he teaches a class on C. S. Lewis’s fiction. He and his wife life in Lexington, Kentucky.
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