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Now available in trade paper with an eye-catching new cover from the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis: Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. The answer provides hope and healing and a magical journey for anyone whose life has ever been changed by a book.1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother asks Megs if Narnia is real, logical Megs tells him it’s just a book for children, and certainly not true. Homebound due to his illness, and remaining fixated on his favorite books, George presses her to ask the author of the recently released novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a question: “Where did Narnia come from?”Despite her fear about approaching the famous author, who is a professor at her school, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with C. S. Lewis and his own brother Warnie, begging them for answers.Rather than directly telling her where Narnia came from, Lewis encourages Megs to form her own conclusion as he slowly tells her the little-known stories from his own life that led to his inspiration. As she takes these stories home to George, the little boy travels farther in his imagination than he ever could in real life.Lewis’s answers will reveal to Megs and her family many truths that science and math cannot, and the gift she thought she was giving to her brother—the story behind Narnia—turns out to be his gift to her, instead: hope.Now available in trade paper with a gorgeous, eye-catching new cover!New York Times bestselling authorA captivating, stand-alone historical novel combining fact and fictionAn emotional journey into the books and stories that make us who we are

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Author : Patti Callahan
★★★★☆ 4.7 from 5 stars (2092 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 078525174X
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Once upon a wardrobe, not very long ago and not very far away, a middle-aged girl, weighed down by the death, disease, disaster, and dissension screaming from the headlines, opened an email from a book review site. She had resolved not to agree to any more review books at present, but there it was: the cover artwork showing the dreaming spires of Oxford at blue hour, a Narnian lamppost garlanded with fresh snow in the foreground, the fairy-tale title Once Upon a Wardrobe, and a tiny lion’s head like a door-knocker inviting her into whatever adventure Aslan might have within. Resolve crumbled in the face of such a summons.“Yes, please and thank you,” she clicked.When the galley eBook arrived in her inbox, she dropped everything to begin reading. As surely as Alice fell into Wonderland or Harry fell into Dumbledore’s Pensieve, she promptly fell into this tale of Oxford don C. S. Lewis helping a brother and sister learn to live in love, grief, and hope, all bound up together. The story raised the hair on the reader’s arms in prickles of wonder, brought a chuckle to her throat and a smile to her face, and repeatedly reduced her to tears as she read her Kindle in the backyard pool. It gave the sheerest, purest delight she’d felt in many weeks.“George knows you can take the bad parts in a life, all the hard and dismal parts, and turn them into something of beauty. You can take what hurts and aches and perform magic with it so it becomes something else, something that never would have been, except you make it so with your spells and stories and with your life.” (Kindle 2306).In Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry (Harper Muse, October 19, 2021), Megs Devonshire studies mathematics at Oxford and dreams of one day becoming a professor and unraveling the mysteries of the universe through logic and mathematical reasoning. She remains aloof from the exuberant social life of her peers, however, spending most weekends traveling to and from her home village. You see, her beloved brother, George, is dying of a heart condition and unlikely to see his ninth birthday. He has developed an obsession with the recently published children’s book TheLion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis, and he knows Lewis happens to be a tutor at the university his sister attends. His dying wish is to find out from Mr. Lewis where Narnia comes from, where all the stories and places in his book come from.His sister resists at first. It seems romantic nonsense to her mathematical self. After all, Mr. Lewis is quite famous and teaching in one of the Oxford colleges where no girls are allowed in the 1950s, so how on earth is she to meet him and ask her brother’s questions? She even considers making an answer up and lying to her brother about having done his bidding, but ultimately she can’t bring herself to do that. She devises a plan to try to meet Lewis at his home, and while she sits outside screwing her courage to the sticking place, Lewis’s brother Warnie discovers her and invites her inside the home he shares with “Jack” for tea.The many lengthy conversations that ensue don’t exactly answer George’s questions, and yet they do. In the process, Megs has her own ideas turned upside-down: ideas about imagination, reason, and whether a made-up story can, even so, tell the truth in a way a mathematical equation cannot. She finds friendship, mentorship, love, and the surprise of joy along the way. The world-weary girl reading her adventures discovers the closest thing she’s ever experienced to a second first time entering Narnia, and the nearest thing to tea with Jack and Warnie at theKilns.“'Have you felt it, sister? Have you felt that joy?' I want to answer him. I close my eyes. 'I think so. When I solve a problem or equation that seems impossible, it’s like there’s some kind of light breaking through, or the knowing leads to some kind of satisfaction . . . and maybe joy. Or when I walk outside on a spring afternoon and the first crocus is born from the snow and the sunlight runs across the spider webs like messengers from tree to tree, that’s when I remember something, something I’ve forgotten and is waiting for me, something . . . larger than me. And then it’s gone. And I want it back. I think that’s what Mr. Lewis is talking about.' 'Like when you finish a story and you wish you could read it like you’d never read it before. Like you want to read it for the first time again,' George says" (Kindle 1235).Readers familiar with the non-fiction work of C. S. Lewis may experience some déjà-vu, as many of the facts incorporated into the story appear in Surprised by Joy. Ideas from his literary criticism, Mere Christianity, Weight of Glory, The FourLoves, and his letters to children also make their presence known. Even so, the whole far exceeds the sum of its parts. Ms. Callahan has clearly dwelt with her extensive research to the point that the ideas come out as if they were her own.Readers not familiar with the life of Lewis and his non-fiction work will likely find this an accessible and delightful point of entry. The bibliography was not yet ready in the galley copy I enjoyed, but I expect that it will point readers in the right direction if they wish to read more. If readers of this new book have not yet read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I would suggest reading that first, or at least pausing to read it when Megs does in the newer book.Warning: common side effects of this book include impulsive binge-reading of the Narnian stories and other Lewis works. And those of George MacDonald. And a blown book budget.All in all, Once Upon a Wardrobe earns my most heartfelt and earnest recommendation. The way it braids love, grief, and hope together is magical and healing. It overflows with another of Lewis’s favorite ideas, Sehnsucht, that homesick longing that Lewis considered to be proof we were made for another world. The story works as story, but also explores the mystery of what can only be understood through imagination, the paradox that fiction (or “myth”) can convey some truths in a way nothing factual can, and the narrative escape that—at its best—is not escapist but equips the reader to return to life outside of the book we’re reading.Once upon a wardrobe, not very long ago and not very far away, a world-weary middle-aged girl found deep and needed soul refreshment in this winsome story about sibling love, friendship, and the marvelous mystery of great books. She hopes you read it too. Once Upon a Wardrobe Online PDF ebook online Superb. Breathtaking. Heart-true. Each moment another revelation. Megs will do whatever she can to bring the answer back to her brother George, who is ill. And the answers emerge from everywhere, as it turns out, from everywhere just exactly as art and myth and Bible and legend and The Lord of the Rings, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and all of our human aspiration for TRUTH all emerge, to be held out before us on our palms, and to be loved by our hearts. Patti Callahan gave us C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman in her powerful human drama of love and writing when she gave us Becoming Mrs. Lewis. Now, she has done us one step more beautifully by giving us "the rest of the story" as it is desired and as it comes to be received, for eight-year-old George. Please read this book. I am a 76-year-old man, a deep reader of the times Callahan depicts by making them come alive now, and from my own experience, I can tell you that you will cry. PDF Once Upon a Wardrobe read online ’No matter your age, may you never, evergrow too old for fairy tales.’Mhamó’Sometimes fairy stories may say best what’s to be said.’C. S. LewisThis begins in December of 1950, in Worcestershire, England and stays there, for the most part, for the story. At the heart of it is a heartbreaking story, but one also filled with so much heartfelt love. It is also a story of a life well-lived, despite the brevity of life for George Henry Devonshire, a life filled within moments of adventure, curiosity, and books and people who cherished him. As this begins, he is in bed with a newly published book on the nightstand, ’The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, and something about the lion makes him think that lion might be, for him, the answer to the things he wishes he knew.His sister, Megs, is a student at Oxford, and once he’s been introduced to the story of ’The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe he has so many questions, and begs his sister to ask C.S. Lewis, since she is a student at Oxford where he is a professor. Most of all he wants to know how he came to ‘create’ Narnia. And so, eventually, she tries to summon up the courage to go to knock on his door and ask him, and then being discovered by his brother on their property, she is invited into their home. Once inside, she is able to ask Lewis questions which answers lead to more questions, and more visits over time.There’s a friendship that is also loosely established that begins to appear to have the promise of more as the weeks pass. A friendship that extends to young George, and a lovely gesture on this young man’s part that was particularly endearing. A lovely early-Christmas gift which allows George to more fully envision this world that C.S. Lewis created.I loved this story, it gently tugs at the heartstrings now and then, and was a brief, wonderful glimpse into the imaginative world of C.S. Lewis.This is one I will not soon forget. ePUB Once Upon a Wardrobe ebook inglese Download [PDF] Once Upon a Wardrobe