What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1950 novel featuring four Pevensie children?

C.S. Lewis’s 1950 novel featuring the four Pevensie children is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It introduces Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, who enter the land of Narnia through a wardrobe during the Second World War.

The book was the first published volume in The Chronicles of Narnia, although Lewis later arranged the series in a different internal chronological order. Its plot includes the White Witch’s rule, the return of spring, and the sacrifice and resurrection of Aslan. The story’s publication date was 1950, four years before the final Narnia book appeared.

Readers sometimes confuse publication order with the series’ fictional chronology. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published first, while The Magician’s Nephew, published later, is set earlier in Narnian history. The title’s three images—lion, witch, and wardrobe—identify the first book without requiring knowledge of the entire series.