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
The Magician (Maugham novel) critique, named "How to Write a Novel! (After W. S. Maugham)", Crowley accuses Maugham of having plagiarised the following books in writing "The Magician": Most critics consider the above works as sources for an original story, and Crowley's accusations to be motivated by malice. The large body of original work turned out by Maugham thereafter would tend to support this. In "A Fragment of Autobiography", Maugham said he had not read Crowley's review, adding, "I daresay it was a pretty piece of vituperation, but probably, like his poems, intolerably verbose." The Magician (Maugham novel) The Magician is a novel by