Things begin to fall apart after a talking ape named Shift stumbles across the skin of a lion floating in a pool beneath a waterfall. Often overlooked if not dismissed for its colonialist racism, “The Last Battle” won the 1956 Carnegie Prize, Britain’s top literary award for children’s books.Īccording to Lewis, the end of Narnia - a land of talking beasts and magical creatures that the Oxford don invented at the beginning of World War II - begins in a time of peace and leisure. Lewis, the Christian apologist and beloved children’s author, warns in “ The Last Battle,” the flawed final chapter of the Chronicles of Narnia, which I found myself rereading as 2020 dwindled down to its last days. It can all happen in what seems like the blink of an eye, as C.S. (RNS) - The end of the world begins with a con.Ī little lie, told by a petty grifter, who is willing to betray his friends and neighbors for a few small pleasures, leads to another lie, and then another, and finally to the unraveling of the ties that bind us together.Īs the old camp song goes, it only takes a spark to get a fire going.
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