5. Darkness and light

‘Darkness and light’ begins with a discussion of George MacDonald: An Anthology and Miracles (both 1947). It also describes Lewis’s home life, his wedding to Joy Gresham in 1955, and his appointment as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Other key works around this time included English Literature in the Sixteenth Century and De Descriptione Temporum, but the most famous of his works—The Chronicles of Narnia—were finally completed in 1953. The seven books—The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician’s Nephew; and The Last Battle—describe the world of Narnia.