XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: robban@it.net.au   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:06:54 +0100, JF  wrote:   
   >   
      
   >>Where on earth did you get that bizarre idea from? Look -- let me spell   
   >>it out for you. Volume 1 in any chronicles means the first book. It   
   >>doesn't matter when the volume was written. Volume 1 of The Narnia   
   >>Chronicles is 'The Magician's Nephew'. One means the first. Say it to   
   >>yourself over and over again. Sorry about the big words.   
   >   
   >   
   > Is there any evidence at all that it was called "The chronicles of Narnia"   
   > during his life time? I doubt it. He wrote a book called "The lion, the witch   
   > and the wardrobe", a stand-alone book, complete in itself. When it proved   
   > popular, he wrote a sequel, "Prince Caspian", and so eventually there were   
   > seven books, but until some time after his death "The lion, the witch and the   
   > wardrobe" was Book 1 in boxed sets.   
      
   All so different from "Star Wars" where the first book actually had a   
   number other than 1 when it was published.   
   --   
   Rob Bannister   
      
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