A wardrobe serves as the gateway to Narnia in C.S. Lewis’s first Narnia novel.
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie discovers that the back of an old wardrobe opens into a snowy woodland in another world. At first her siblings doubt her account, but Edmund later enters the wardrobe too, followed by Peter and Susan.
The wardrobe is not simply an ordinary piece of furniture in the story. It is located in a largely unused room of an old country house, and its passage connects the children’s wartime English surroundings with Narnia. The object became one of the most recognizable images in children’s fantasy literature.
Readers sometimes remember the wardrobe as a portal used throughout the entire series. In fact, different Narnia stories use different routes between worlds, including rings, a painting, and a railway accident.