In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a wardrobe leads Lucy Pevensie into Narnia. While exploring the house where the children are staying, Lucy steps through the wardrobe and discovers a snowy forest beyond its back wall.
Lucy is the first of the four Pevensie children to enter Narnia. She later returns with Edmund, Susan, and Peter, and the wardrobe becomes the story’s central portal between the ordinary world and the magical land. The opening discovery establishes the novel’s theme of belief and wonder.
The wardrobe is sometimes remembered as a general magical doorway, but it is specifically a large wardrobe containing fur coats. Lewis published the novel in 1950 as the first published book in The Chronicles of Narnia, although it is often placed second in chronological reading order.