Prince Caspian (Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
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Author: C. S. LewisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-24
ISBN: 0060764929
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Reviews of Prince Caspian (Narnia)
Book Review: deja vu all over again
Summary: 2 Stars
I enjoy most of the Narnia series, but this one leaves me cold. The impression I get is that Lewis wanted to repeat the success of LION/WITCH, but hadn't figured out how to scale up the story yet. The problems?
(1) LION/WITCH had a tyrant, so this book has a tyrant, too. So there's another civil war. Repetition, as I said.
(2) The rebels summon the kids from LION/WITCH to help, but why? The kids have no special abilities, like the hobbits. They don't bring twentieth-century technology with them. They're good at horseback riding and archery, but a typical Narnia soldier can do that as well. Basically they are there for propaganda purposes, to awe the Narnians, but that's not heroic, and so Lewis never admits that. Instead they have to fight in battles and risk getting killed.
(3) To keep the kids from reaching the rebels and finishing the story, Lewis has Aslan appear and play hide-and-seek. Supposedly it's to test their faith, but why would Aslan think it needs testing at this point, particularly when lives are at stake elsewhere?
(4) Eventually they reach the rebels and we get another war. But this time there's no heroic scene comparable to Aslan's self-sacrifice in LION/WITCH, so it's a second-rate repetition.
(5) Most of the Narnia stories have a moral, but I don't see one here. That fighting is good?
Most of the good stuff is in the last chapter when Aslan is trying to arrange peace. After revealing that Caspian had evil ancestors, he tells the boy that he is only responsible for his own acts. He lectures a wounded rebel on accepting adversity, then gives up and heals him anyway. He praises a man on the losing side for his bravery and advises the other rebels to follow him as they go into exile. And there's the poignant revelation when Peter and Susan learn that they can never come back. But the rest of the novel is pretty much a loss.
Summary of Prince Caspian (Narnia)
There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media.
In the never-ending war between good and evil, The Chronicles of Narnia set the stage for battles of epic proportions. Some take place in vast fields, where the forces of light and darkness clash. But other battles occur within the small chambers of the heart and are equally decisive.
Journeys to the ends of the world, fantastic creatures, betrayals, heroic deeds and friendships won and lost -- all come together in an unforgettable world of magic. So join a prince as he fights for his crown.
The fourth volume in
The Chronicles of Narnia®
Prince Caspian
Narnia ... where animals talk ... where trees walk ... where a battle is about to begin.
A prince denied his rightful throne gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire world.
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