What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1950 novel in which four children enter a magical land through a wardrobe?

C.S. Lewis’s 1950 novel about four children entering a magical land through a wardrobe is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The story follows Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who discover the land of Narnia through a wardrobe in a country house. Narnia is trapped in a winter imposed by the White Witch, and the return of the lion Aslan signals the possibility of liberation.

The book was the first published novel in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, although many modern editions arrange the series according to the internal chronology of Narnia rather than publication order. In publication order, it was followed by Prince Caspian in 1951.

Readers often identify Aslan with Christian symbolism, particularly through the novel’s sacrificial and resurrection imagery. Lewis resisted reducing the story to a simple one-to-one allegory, but its Christian themes are central to the book’s design.