书名：The Magician’s Nephew魔法师的外甥
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数790L
作者：C. S. Lewis
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：1994
语种：英文
ISBN：9780064471107
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.2 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：240
The Chronicles of Narnia《纳尼亚传奇》是英国作家C.S.路易斯于1951年至1956年间创作的一套七册的奇幻儿童文学，为英美儿童文学经典之一。故事的开始讲述一个小男孩和一个女孩偶然进入了一个异世界，称为纳尼亚，并在那里经历过一连串的冒险，及看到那个世界的创造。故事中的“纳尼亚王国”是一个神秘奇幻的世界，在这些故事中，小主人公们或凭借一枚魔法戒指，或通过一扇衣柜大门等各种奇妙方法进入奇幻世界纳尼亚王国。书里有会说人话的动物：巨人、马人、巨龙、树精、地精和人鱼等等，有善良的羊怪和小矮人，还有伟大的狮王阿斯兰。在它们的帮助下，小主人公们通过英勇的冒险和战斗，一次次战胜邪恶，保卫了这个神奇而充满欢乐的国度。《纳尼亚传奇》融神话、童话和传奇为一体，以正义与邪恶的斗争为线索展开，寓意深刻，并富于戏剧性，情节紧张，曲折动人，想象奇特、引人入胜。这部作品在英美几乎是家喻户晓的儿童读物，也被一致公认为20世纪儿童图书之一。

这本The Magician’s Nephew《魔法师的外甥》为《纳尼亚传奇》系列书籍第1部。

推荐理由：
1.凸显了成长、拯救、正义等主题，尤其适合青少年读者做英文课外读物；
2.配插图，由英国画家Pauline Baynes绘制；
3.英文原版，内容完整无删减，采用环保纸印刷。

★20世纪伟大的儿童文学作品，并获得英国儿童文学的高荣誉——卡耐基文学奖。
★全球热销1亿册，好莱坞同名电影全球票房超10亿，比肩J.R.R.托尔金《魔戒》。
★被美国《时代周刊》评为100种英文小说之一，被翻译成47种语言，畅销全球六十余载。
★英国一位女作家在《纳尼亚传奇》的影响下，也写了七部魔幻小说，风靡全世界。这位女作家就是《哈利波特》的作者J.K.罗琳。
★《纳尼亚传奇》与《哈利波特》《指环王》并称为世界三大魔幻经典巨著，畅销全球六十余载。
★作者C.S.刘易斯是J.K.罗琳的精神导师，托尔金的终身挚友。
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Narnia... a land frozen in eternal winter... a country waiting to be set free
Witness the creation of a magical land in The Magician’s Nephew, the first title in C. S. Lewis’s classic fantasy series, which has captivated readers of all ages for over sixty years. This rack-size paperback features cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.
The Magician’s Nephew《魔法师的外甥》

神奇的魔法戒指将两个孩子带往一片森林，那里可以通向各个世界。在新世界纳尼亚，马儿长出了翅膀，动物开口说话……喜欢冒险的男孩迪格雷和女孩波莉误入了迪格雷舅舅安德鲁的实验室，安德鲁用魔法戒指把两个孩子送往了一片神秘森林，从那里可通往各个世界。两个孩子到达了濒临死亡的恰恩城，也见证了阿斯兰创造纳尼亚的过程。
On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan’s song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible.
This is a stand-alone novel, but if you want to journey back to Narnia, read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia. 

C.S.刘易斯，英国作家，曾执教于牛津大学（1925～1954）。1954～1963年任剑桥大学中世纪和文艺复兴英国文学教授。所著儿童故事集《纳尼亚传奇》情节动人，妙趣横生。其他作品有《爱情的寓言：对中世纪传统的研究》（1936）以及科幻小说三部曲《沉寂的星球》（1938）、《皮尔兰德拉星》（1943）和《黑暗之劫》（1945）等。

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.

This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. It is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began.
In those days Mr Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road. In those days, if you were a boy you had to wear a stiff Eton collar every day, and schools were usually nastier than now. But meals were nicer; and as for sweets, I won’t tell you how cheap and good they were, because it would only make your mouth water in vain. And in those days there lived in London a girl called Folly Mummer.
She lived in one of a long row of houses which were all joined together. One morning she was out in the back garden when a boy scrambled up from the garden next door and put his face over the wall. Polly was very surprised because up till now there had never been any children in that house, but only Mr Ketterley and Miss Ketterley, a brother and sister, old bachelor and old maid, living together. So she looked up, full of curiosity. The face of the strange boy was very grubby. It could hardly have been grubbier if he had first rubbed his hands in the earth, and then had a good cry, and then dried his face with his hands. As a matter of fact, this was very nearly what he had been doing.
“Hullo,” said Polly.
“Hullo,” said the boy. “What’s your name?”
“Polly,” said Polly. “What’s yours?”
“Digory,” said the boy.
“I say, what a funny name!” said Polly.
“It isn’t half so funny as Polly,” said Digory.
“Yes it is,” said Polly.
“No, it isn’t,” said Digory.
“At any rate I do wash my face,” said Polly. “Which is what you need to do; especially after—” and then she stopped. She had been going to say “After you’ve been blubbing,” but she thought that wouldn’t be polite.
“All right, I have then,” said Digory in a much louder voice, like a boy who was so miserable that he didn’t care who knew he had been crying. “And so would you,” he went on, “if you’d lived all your life in the country and had a pony, and a river at the bottom of the garden, and then been brought to live in a beastly Hole like this.”