The Silver Chair The Silver Chair The Silver Chair is a children's fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1953. It was 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. Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions. The novel is set primarily in the world of Narnia, decades after "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" there but less than a year later in England. King Caspian X is now
The Silver Chair life. The cast of characters introduced by later editors seems to promote this, but it is not supported by Lewis's text. The Lady of the Green Kirtle is a were-snake, and it is never implied in any of the books that Jadis "or" the White Witch possess this attribute.(See the Lady of the Green Kirtle for more discussion.) The manner of Rilian's confinement to a chair recalls the imprisonment of Theseus and Pirithous in the Underworld when discovered there by Heracles on his twelfth and final labour, the abduction of Cerberus. The BBC produced a TV series, which aired in