The Silver Chair an old man, but his son and only heir, Prince Rilian, is missing. Aslan the lion sends two children from England to Narnia on a mission to resolve the mystery: Eustace Scrubb, from "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", and his classmate, Jill Pole. In the frame story, Eustace and Jill are students at a horrible boarding school, Experiment House. "The Silver Chair" is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Colin Hardie, a member of the Inklings with Lewis. Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year. "The Silver Chair" was adapted and filmed as a BBC
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