The inspiring, gracefully-told adventures of four English children -- Lucy, Edmund, Peter, & Susan Pevensie -- who are sent to the countryside during wartime to live in the house of a strange professor. Lucy, the youngest, is hiding from the others & finds a door behind some coats in the back of an old wooden wardrobe closet, which leads to a secret world. Narnia, this peculiar land, is an amazing place that is home to an odd collection of animals, fauns, centaurs & other creatures as well as various kinds of humans -- some nefarious, some noble, some silly, some kindhearted. Narnia is embroiled in a desperate struggle against powerful forces that threaten to enslave it, destroy its beauty, & do away with all hope for a free & happy life. The children find themselves unable to return to their own world at will, so join their newfound friends, encounter strange enchantments, & participate in battles, explorations, & high intrigues -- sometimes meeting Aslan, a mysterious & powerful Lion who somehow seems to be at the center of everything. [The seven books in this series include: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Magician's Nephew; The Horse and His Boy; and The Last Battle.]