C.S. Lewis’s novel Prince Caspian was first published in 1951.
The book is the fourth-published volume of The Chronicles of Narnia and the second story in the internal chronology commonly used for the series. It follows Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy after they return to Narnia and discover that centuries have passed there since their previous visit.
The children meet Prince Caspian, the rightful heir to the Narnian throne. Caspian is resisting the rule of his uncle Miraz, who has suppressed the old traditions and driven many talking animals and other creatures into hiding.
The novel’s full title is Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. It was followed in publication order by The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 1952. The 2008 film adaptation retained the title Prince Caspian but made several changes to the story and its sequence of events.