The Silver Chair audiobook

The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4), C. S. LewisThe Silver Chair is a children's fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1953. It was the fourth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956).Completed at the beginning of March 1951 and published 7 September 1953, The Silver Chair is the first Narnia book not involving the Pevensie children, focusing instead on Eustace. Several months after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Aslan calls Eustace back to Narnia along with his classmate Jill Pole. They are given four signs to aid them in the search for Prince Caspian's son Rilian, who disappeared ten years earlier on a quest to avenge his mother's death. Fifty years have passed in Narnia since the events from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Eustace is still a child, but Caspian, barely an adult in the previous book, is now an old man. Eustace and Jill, with the help of Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, face danger and betrayal on their quest to find Rilian. تاریخ نخستین خوانش: یکی از روزهای سال2002میلادیعنوان: ماجراهای نارنیا چهار: صندلی نقره ای جادویی؛ نویسنده: سی.اس لوئیس؛ مترجم: شهناز انوشیروانی؛ تهران، محیط، سال1376؛ در184ص؛ شابک ایکس-96462461؛ عنوان روی جلد: صندلی جادویی؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20مترجم: امیر اقتداری؛ منوچهر کریم زاده؛ تهران، هرمی، کیمیا، سال1379؛ در شش و229ص؛ شابک9647100086؛ چاپ سوم سال1385؛مترجم: پیمان اسماعیلیان؛ ویراستار: شهرام رجب زاده؛ تهران، قدیانی، سال1387، در304ص؛ شابک9789644178542؛ چاپ سوم سال1394؛ مترجم: محمدرضا شمس؛ تهران، پنجره، سال1387، در200ص؛ شابک9789648890891؛داستان پیدا کردن و نجات دادن «ریلین» پسر «شاه کاسپین» است؛ که توسط جادوگری ربوده شده است؛ «کلایوْ استیپلز لوئیس» که نزد دوستانش به جک معروف بود در سال1898میلادی به دنیا آمدند؛ «لوئیس» و دوست نزدیکش «جی.آر.آر تالکین»، نویسنده ی سه‌ گانه ی «ارباب حلقه‌ها»، اعضای حلقه‌ ای ادبی از باشگاه نویسندگانی غیررسمی بودند، که خود آن را «اینکلینگز» می‌نامیدند و هماره در کافه‌ ای محلی برای بحث درباره اندیشه‌های نخستین داستان‌هایشان گرد هم می‌آمدند؛ شیفتگی «لوئیس» به قصه‌ های پریان، اسطوره‌ ها و افسانه‌ های کهن، در کنار الهاماتی که از دوران کودکی می‌گرفت، او را به نوشتن «قصه شیر، ساحره و کمد لباس» واداشت که یکی از جذاب‌ترین کتاب‌های کودک در جهان است؛ با شش جلد دیگر بدل به سری بسیار نامدار «نارنیا» شد، و آخرین جلد از این سری، یعنی «آخرین نبرد»، مدال «کارنگی» را به سینه چسباند؛ بچه ها از راه کمد به «دنیای نارنیا» راه می‌یابند، و از سوی «اصلان»، آفرینشگر «نارنیا» مامور می‌شوند تا «ریلین»، پسر «شاه کاسپین» را پیدا کنند و نزد پدرش برگردانند؛ او مدتی پیش توسط جادوگری به هیبت یک دختر زیباروی، افسون شده و ربوده شده است....؛در کتاب چهارم پس از رویدادهای داستان سوم، «اوستاس اسکراب» دچار دگرگونیهای بسیاری شده و همین به او برای بهتر کردن اخلاقش یاری میکند و طی همین دوره او با «جیل پول» به «نارنیا» فراخوانده می‌شود، تا فرزند شاه کاسپین را نجات دهدنقل از متن کتاب: (مدتهای درازی است که من، صدای آواز نشنیده ام. یا رقص، و فشفشه ندیده ام؛ چرا باید اینطور باشد؟ همه فکر میکنند، من طلسم شده ام؛ اگر میفهمیدم چرا این همه بار میکشم؟ خوشبخت بودم.)؛ پایان ص187کتابتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 16/10/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 06/10/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Ah, the strange joys of Narnia! How is a middle-aged feminist nonbeliever supposed to feel about this contradictory volume?Pro: Jill Pole is a strong, active, fun, funny, vigorous girl that any reader, male or female, will be happy to have as a protagonist. Con: Jill's old enough to be active, but young enough not to be a sexual being. Which is clearly the only reason Lewis is comfortable having her around, because:Con: Once again, Lewis only allows grown women as characters when they're scary, evil, beautiful, and seductive in equal parts. In this volume, the villain is the brilliant, ruthless Queen of the Underworld. Pro: Jill is a fully developed character who shows that kids can be strong and important without being paragons of virtue. One of the lines I remembered all my life after reading this book as a child is her reply to Aslan when he asks her why she was standing so near the edge of a cliff (and putting both herself and her friend in danger in the process). "I was showing off, Sir." I love how she says this, without flinching. She messed up, and there's nothing to do but own it.Pro: Because of moments like the above, Jill is more enjoyable to follow on her adventures than Lucy. I love Lucy, but she's cute and sweet and pretty much flawless. Jill gets tired, impatient, sick to her stomach with fear, sulky, and unreasonably angry. She also knows when to fight and when to run. I can relate to that.Con: This is the only full-length story of Jill's adventures. (The Last Battle so does not count. More about that later. Like, in another review.)Con: Quite aside from the relatively passive sexism of Lewis' pitting pre-sexual girls against dangerously seductive full-grown female villains, he also displays active sexism in this book. At the very end, he makes a point of pointing out that the terrible, incompetent Head of Jill's awful boarding school is a woman. Literally. "And then the Head (who was, by the way, a woman)..." Really? Well, that explains everything. Pro: Lewis does some of his best characterization in this book. Minor spoiler: At one point, Jill, Eustace, and Puddleglum discover to their horror that the meat they've been eating was actually a talking beast. Their separate reactions as they put down their forks are brilliantly described:"Jill, who was new to that world, was sorry for the poor stag and thought it was rotten of the giants to have killed him. [Eustace] Scrubb, who had been in that world before and had at least one Talking beast as his dear friend, felt horrified; as you might feel about a murder. But Puddleglum, who was Narnian born, was sick and faint, and felt as you would feel if you found you had eaten a baby."Con: Once again, Lewis backs the wrong horse, historically speaking. Jill and Eustace are together on this adventure because they go to the same school. Yes! Really! Can you believe it? Boys and girls, attending school together! What's next???Pro: It's kind of funny to think that someone as brilliant as Lewis could fall so cleanly into the losing camp on this issue. Pro: Lots of Aslan. Con: As a symbol of the Christian God, he's not at his best here. For instance, he tells Jill at the beginning of her adventures, "Here on the mountain I have spoken to you clearly: I will not often do so down in Narnia." Even as a child and certainly now, my first thought was, "Why?" If you already accept divine inscrutability as necessary or at least inevitable, this flies fine; if you don't, this doesn't help. Pro: Puddleglum is one of the finest fantasy characters ever. His name and his "tells" are Dickensian in their genius, but he never falls into reflexive predictability. He's a weird, quirky, deeply appealing hero.Pro: Happy ending for every kid who's ever been bullied at school.Conclusion: Once again, Narnia is awesome no matter how old and skeptical you get.

One of the best. Puddleglum is, perhaps, my favorite Narnian character of all time.

One of my other favorite Narnia books. I honestly love all of these books so much, with the exception of Prince Caspian, so it's really hard for me to truly rank the Narnia novels.Lewis' The Silver Chair, the fourth published book in the series (and the way in which I believe the series should be read) is in many ways a very different and more grim version of the Narnia world.Eustace returns after making his debut in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and we are introduced to a new female lead, Jill Pole, who is quite well written in my opinion and even better than the Pevensie girls. The real show stealer here is the character of Puddleglum, however. He is a pure delight of negativity and pessimism who nevertheless is heroic and brave in his own right. “Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.”“And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses.” Anyways, the children and Puddluglum find themselves on a somber and dark adventure to rescue a lost Prince, and they end up falling into the hands of Giants (who at first appear very civilized) and later an evil queen. This is the first Narnia book (though not the last) to show Narnia as a much less friendly and darker place than the earlier books, especially The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I quite liked Lewis' decision to do this here, and it made for a more mature read, in a series that already tends to mature more in the later books. Lewis was a master at storytelling, and what's most impressive is that despite the fact that none of these books are as long as the typical fantasy novel nowadays, the world is incredibly vibrant and well-thought out. Lewis tells just enough to give us a clear picture while still leaving plenty to the imagination. The Silver Chair is no exception.

In my current reread/ first time ever actually finishing the series, The Silver Chair is the first book in the series, that I did not read as a child or know the story of by seeing an adaptation. To my somewhat surprise, I very much enjoyed this addition to the series. Although I do miss the Pevensies as well as other characters from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as well as Prince Caspian - I really liked following Eustace and Jill on their own cool adventure through Narnia - especially since we got to see even more parts of the world that had not previously been explored in the earlier books. It was an exciting and wholesome adventure of its' own.One thing I will say though, is that my opinion of C. S. Lewis and of the direction he takes his characters and stories in, is very mixed - however I'll go into much more depth with that in my review for the last book, The Last Battle, which I'm already a good chunk into.

{May 2022 Reread} I actually, sadly, really didn't enjoy this very much this time around. However, I think the lackluster reread was due at least in part to the fact that A) spring is exactly the wrong time of year to read this book (it needs the chilly, damp mistiness of late autumn), and B) you know that you're nearing the end of the series when you read this one, and I am already Highly emotional over this series reread and am really rather nervous about where I'll be mentally once I finish The Last Battle. Gulp. But on the other hand, I have always loved this Chronicle and there are certain parts -- especially near the end -- that never fail to delight me. {October 2018 Reread}PUDDLEGLUUUMMMMM.

I can't believe it took me so long to read this one!! SO GOOD. also where is the movie

Finally, a proper novel! Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Sixth time's the charm, eh?The Silver Chair is my favorite out of all the Narnia books. Not only does it have all the usual elements of this wonderful, rich fantasy world Lewis created, but the characters are better, at least in my opinion, the story feels less contrived, and it has the added benefit of being a proper novel. That is to say, it has: a) an actual plot; b) an identifiable climactic point; and c) a clear, concise denouement. For once, I wasn't left scratching my head at the end and going, "What the hell was the point of that?"In this book, we're reunited with Eustace, the Pevensies' cousin, who has turned into an all right guy since we first met him in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Pity how he's kind of bland now that he's not an insufferable git anymore. Fortunately, it wasn't Eustace, but his schoolmate Jill who really made the book for me. Jill is a modern sort of girl; she has new age hippie parents who send her to a new age hippie school, and though Mr. Lewis obviously didn't seem to think much of it, I rather think it did her some good. Unlike the Pevensie girls, who had a tendency to be ninnies and were very much girls of their time, Jill is a pretty level-headed kid, and neither expects nor receives any particularly special treatment on account of being a girl. She's a real, honest-to-god herione, who takes a--if not the--central role in the proceedings, rather than just sort of standing around observing while the boys do all the important stuff. Girl protagonists, for the win! I love it.Also, I feel it's worth mentioning that Jill using the sort of behaviors, if a bit exaggerated, that annoyed me about Lucy and Susan to trick the giants of Harfang, and with no small amount of disgust, amused me greatly. Maybe Lewis finally got the memo that post-war girls were a different breed.But even though I rather adored Jill, I think my favorite character--not just from this book, but out of the whole series--has to be Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle. God, what a character! In my opinion, he has the most personality of any of Lewis's other characters. I love his upbeat sort of persistent doom and gloom, though that would seem to be an oxymoron, and his bravery and resolve despite his bleak, pessimistic outlook on life. I also loved that he was the only one who kept his head and saved the day through a heroic and selfless act when the witch was trying to enchant them. And I really hope we get to see him again in The Last Battle.The other thing I really enjoyed about The Silver Chair is that it's a Quest story. I mean, who doesn't like a good Quest story? If there's a story where so-and-so goes on a long, harrowing journey to complete a difficult and dangerous task, I am all about it. The only thing I didn't particularly like was that the journey itself didn't last long enough for my tastes, and the final conflict and resolution were a little too easy, but since it's a children's book, I'm willing to handwave those points.Definitely worth a read if you're into fantasy. And overall, if you were going to read just one of the Narnia books, I would recommend this one.

I'm just going to give a generic opinion of the whole series.We love them.The end.Okay, so maybe I'll tell you that we read them outloud to the kids almost 2 years ago. So they were 5 going on 6 and 2. They all loved them and followed the plot and talked about the characters during their play.We're re-reading them again (now ages 8, 4 and 2) and they're loving them even more than the first time. All I hear, all day long is "For Narnia" and then they rush through the house, swords drawn. They have made Reepicheep figures out of pom-poms. They have conversations with the characters, "So Edmund, what do you think about the squirrel doing such and so?"I think this is a series of books that needs to be read over and over again.

I just love this series so much. No matter how many times I read it, I never get tired of it! And each time I read it, it’s like I’m discovering Narnia for the first time again. This book is one of my favourites out of the series, I love the adventures our heroes go through to save the lost prince and return him to his rightful place. It allows us a look at a different part of the world of Narnia and it truly is magical!

For some reason Goodreads has this book as #4 in the Chronicles of Narnia and it isn't it's #6, so I hope that can be corrected. #4 = Prince Caspian.Prince Caspian is in this book although he's King Caspian X whose son Prince Rilian has disappeared. Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole escape from bullies at their Experiment House school through a mysteriously open door in a wall which leads to an open moor and a massive cliff and a very large lion called....Aslan. Eustace jumps off a cliff and Jill is given some instructions by Aslan to find the missing Prince Rilian, the heir to Caspian's throne. Jill and Eustace both end up in Narnia where their adventure begins. Jill doesn't pass the instructions on to Eustace in time, but they do meet an owl called Glimfeather who transports them to a Parliament of Owls. Then they meet a marsh-wiggle called Puddleglum, who is brave and pessimistic in equal measures.Jill, Eustace, and Puddleglum cross Ettinsmoor, avoid ending up in a pie in Harfang - the ruined city of the Giants, and finally come face to face with an evil witch who must be defeated if Prince Rilian is to be saved (Hint: This involves The Silver Chair of the title). What happens next...? Well read the book, because it's really good and recommended, and I'll have to start at #1 and read them in the correct order.Back in the real world at the very end of the book, there's an inquiry into how the headmistress of The Experiment House was running her school. 10 people were expelled due to bullying. The Headmaster's friends saw that she was no good at being a Headmaster, so they made her an inspector so she could interfere with other headmasters. When they found she wasn't much good at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after!

So far the best of the Narniad in terms of drama and plotting. I would give my EYETEETH to see a couple of good actors unleashed on the whole Silver Chair segment.Rilian is a pitch-perfect Arthurian knight lifted straight out of Thomas Malory and Puddleglum is a 17th century Puritan and they are endlessly delightful alone and even more so together.Utterly magical and unforgettable. Catch my tweet thread on the whole book here: https://twitter.com/suzannahtweets/st...

I'm getting a smidge frustrated that we are starting to follow the side characters from other Narnia novels. I want more Lucy! I want more Peter!YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat @miranda_reads

Volvemos a Narnia, con más cambios en los protagonistas de la historia. Esta vez nos encontramos con una narración muy mágica y a la vez muy intensa. El reencuentro con algunos personajes la hace muy conmovedora, sin que por esto se pierda la emoción en las diferentes aventuras que se desarrollan en la novela. Se queda entre mis favoritas de la saga.

This is my sixth journey into the fantastical lands of Narnia, as I have chosen to read the series in chronological rather than publication order.Eustace Stubb and Jill Pole manage to escape the bullies of their own world and enter into the fantastical lands of Narnia. Borne on a lion's breath they descend and discover that the lands are once again in turmoil. Young Prince Rilian is missing and old King Caspian is on his death bed, with no heir to precede him. It is up to the duo, along with the help of Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, to traverse the strange country, find the missing heir and save Narnia for the doom that could otherwise befall it.Like the other instalments in this series, there was a moralistic and overtly religious edge to the text that jarred with me, as a contemporary reader. That being said, it did not hamper my overall enjoyment of this fantastical and magical tale.The characters were as lovable as always and the journey as transporting and enchanting. Puddleglum's character made for especially charming reading, as his pessimistic disposition managed to instil the opposite emotion in the reader and made this humorous and delightful.There is a simplicity and goodness to these stories, where good can be relied upon to overcome evil and justice is always served. With only one more tale left in the series, I will be sad to say goodbye to this world.

The Silver Chair is the fourth book in the Narnia series and yet it read as a spin-off because the four siblings weren't in this. This was about their cousin Eustace Scrubb and his friend Jill. I didn't like the beginning that much because I really missed the siblings but then Aslan came and also Eustace and Jill started to grow on me. The story follows Eustace and Jill trying to find Prince Rillian and defeat the evil witch. It has the usual adventures like we have seen so far in Narnia but I didn't like it as much as I had wanted to. Also, some people have issues about how the girls/female characters are portrayed in this series including me so I just chose to ignore those and just enjoy the adventures and fantasy. 3.7 stars.