The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in "The Chronicles of Narnia" (1950–1956). Among all the author's books it is also the most widely held in libraries. Although it was written as well as published first in the series, it is volume two in recent editions, which are sequenced by the stories' chronology (the first being "The Magician's Nephew"). Like the others, it was illustrated by
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