Envisioning Narnia

The film adaptation of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' brings C.S. Lewis's fantasy world to the big screen. But will it look anything like what you imagined?

By Louise Kennedy

Globe Staff / December 4, 2005

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In ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and the six other books that joined it in the 1950s to form the ''Chronicles of Narnia," C.S. Lewis performed a particularly British bit of magic. With astonishing economy of narrative and description, he created an entire world that has lived vividly in the minds of millions of readers ever since. (Full article: 1227 words)