The Chronicles of Narnia books that make up "The Chronicles of Narnia" are presented here in order of original publication date: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", completed by the end of March 1949 and published by Geoffrey Bles in the United Kingdom on 16 October 1950, tells the story of four ordinary children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who have been evacuated to the English countryside from London in 1940 following the outbreak of World War II. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. The Pevensie children help Aslan, a talking
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (soundtrack) occasionally, a solo voice. The score includes instances of electronic music. Though frequent comparisons were made between it and Howard Shore's score for "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy (2001–03), Gregson-Williams said he was not influenced by Shore during the scoring of "The Chronicles of Narnia". He also said he composed over 100 minutes of music for the original score, although less than sixty minutes made the final cut. There is a bootleg copy of the complete recordings circulating on the internet, although no official version of this soundtrack has been released. The complete recordings comprises all music composed