Sealed CS Lewis The on sale Chronicles of Narnia Book IV The Silver Chair read by lan Richardson (abridged) Vinyl Record Album LP
CS Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia Book IV The Silver Chair read by lan Richardson (abridged). The Silver Chair is the fourth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956); it is volume six in recent editions, which are sequenced according to Narnian history. This abridged version on vinyl is read by Ian Richardson. From the back cover: Because he knew I would be interested in it, C.S. Lewis gave me his "Outline of Narnian history so far as it is known." He had composed it after all the Narnian stories had been written, and besides the sentimental attachment I feel towards it, the great value of it is that it shows all the Narnian years on one side and all the Earthly years on the other. It is clear from the "Outline" that there is no exact Narnian equivalent of an Earthly year: for instance between 1940 and 1941 of our time 1303 Narnian years go by, but between 1941 and 1942 (our time) only three Narnian years pass. There was nothing haphazard in this as Lewis had long entertained the thought that Other Worlds might enjoy such qualities as "thicknesses” and “thinnesses” in time. The "Outline" is interesting for a variety of reasons and those who know more will find it reproduced in my little book Past Watchful Dragons (Macmillan, 1979). Anyway, one thing we learn from the "Outline" is that seventy Narnian years pass between the adventures recounted in The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and those in The Silver Chair, but only a few months of our time.
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CS Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia Book IV The Silver Chair read by lan Richardson (abridged)
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Thus it is that in this story Eustace Scrubb is only a few months older albeit much wiser than he had been in the "Dawn Treader"adventure. This explains why Eustace is unable to recognize Prince Rilian whom he and Jill Pole have been called into Narnian to search for. So you can imagine the confusion this causes as Eustace because of the difference in Narnian and Earthly times--remembers the Prince's father as the youthful King Caspian. Nevertheless, their most serious mistakes result from their not following Aslan's instructions to the letter. Obedience, as they later come to see, is very, very important.
The story is set for the most part in the hitherto unexplored Wild Lands of the North, the country of Giants who are fond of eating children ("elegant little bipeds'') at their Autumn Feast. Eustace and Jill are accompanied by Puddleglum the Marshwiggle who is one of Lewis's most amusing creations. Lewis told me that the courageous but pessimistic Puddleglum was the one on sale character he modelled after a real person-his gardener, Fred Paxford, who, as I had a chance to observe, was despite his kindness and generosity inclined to take a gloomy view of things in general. (In 1960 Lewis and his wife were setting off, with considerable trepidation, for an airplane to Greece. Paxford came out to the car to wish them well, and Lewis remembered his parting words as "Well, Mr. Jack, there was this bloke just going on on the wireless about a plane crash. Everybody killed. Burnt beyond recognition. Did you hear that Mr. Jack? Burnt beyond recognition!")
Following their escape from the Giants, Eustace, Jill and Puddleglum find their way into Underland where a beautiful witch holds Prince Rilian under an enchantment. Except for an heroic effort on Puddleglum's part they would never have escaped with the Prince and united him with his aged father before the old Kingdies. Even then there follows a splendid "twist" at the end of the story.
I always feel that the Narnian tale I am reading or listening to at the moment is my favourite; but if I were forced by a Witch or someone equally frightening to say which story I really love the most I would have to confess that it is The Silver Chair. -WALTER HOOPER
Walter Hooper was C.S. Lewis's personal secretary. When Lewis died in 1963 he became one of the trustees of C.S. Lewis's Estate, and over the last 15 years he edited ten volumes of Lewis's literary remains. Walter Hooper is the co-author of C.S. Lewis: A Biography (1974) and the author of several articles about the Chronicles of Narnia
lan Richardson has spent the greater part of his career playing leading roles with England's prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his New York stage debut with the RSC in 1964 as Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors and Edmund in Peter Brook's King Lear. He returned to America as the tortured Marat in Marat/Sade, then scored a great personal tour de force in his own Shakes. pearean stage anthology, He Who Plays the King. The New York critics have also hailed his performances in Richard II (wherein he alternately played the roles of Richard and Bolingbroke), Love's Labour's Lost and as the Novelist in Gorky's Summerfolk. Mr. Richardson was born in Edinburgh and trained for the stage at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the James Bridie Gold Medal, and of which he is now a Fellow. His starring role as Henry Hig. gins in the recent Broadway revival of My Fair Lady received much critical acclaim. as did his starring role in Man And Superman at the Shaw Festival Theatre in Ontario, Canada. His films include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marat/Sade, The Darwin Adventure and Man of La Mancha.
Other Caedmon titles on which Mr. Richardson performs are MARAT/SADE (TRS 312), MALLEUS MALEFICARUM (TC 1434), LEO TOLSTOY: FABLES AND FAIRY TALES (TC 1435), THE ART OF THE ESSAY (TC 2071). TREASURE ISLAND (TC 2075), THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS (TC 1464). THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (TC 1542), THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (TC 1587), and THE STORY OF LANCELOT (TC 1609).
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Cover: Illustration by Roger Hane from The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis, Reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
1953 Macmillan Publishing Co. Library of Congress # 79-740792
1980 Caedmon Directed by Ward Botsford
Abridged by Janet Schulman
Studio Engineer and Tape Editor: Daniel A. Wolfert
SOURCE: THE SILVER CHAIR, Book 4 in The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
Copyright 1953 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. New York.
Recorded by arrangement with William Collins Sons and Company Ltd., London
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