C.S. Lewis published The Last Battle, the final Narnia novel, in 1956.
The novel concludes the seven-book Chronicles of Narnia and depicts the end of the Narnian world. It won the Carnegie Medal in 1957, an important British children’s literature prize, recognizing the book’s literary achievement.
The story follows events involving a false Aslan, the ape Shift, and a final conflict that brings Narnia’s history to a close. Its ending has generated extensive discussion because Lewis presents destruction and renewal through strongly symbolic religious imagery.
The Last Battle was the seventh Narnia book published, but it is not the final story chronologically within Narnia’s fictional history. The Magician’s Nephew, published later in the sequence, describes events at the beginning of that world.