The Last Battle is a high fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis published by The Bodley Head in 1956. It was the seventh and final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956). Like the others it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes, and her work has been retained in many later editions.
The Last Battle is set almost entirely in the Narnian world, and the English children who participate arrive only in the middle of the narrative. The novel is set some two hundred Narnian years after The Silver Chair and about 2500 years since the creation of the world narrated in The Magician’s Nephew. A false Aslan is set up in the north-western borderlands and conflict between true and false Narnians merges with the conflicts between Narnia and Calormen, whose people worship Tash. It concludes with termination of the world by Aslan, after a “last battle” practically lost.
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