Which 1956 novel concluded C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia?

The Last Battle concluded C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia in 1956. It was the seventh and final Narnia book to be published.

The novel depicts the final crisis in Narnia, involving deception, political conflict, and the collapse of the old Narnian world. King Tirian is the last reigning king of Narnia, and the story brings together several characters and themes from earlier books.

The book won the Carnegie Medal in 1957, a major British children’s literature award. Its ending gives the series a sense of finality rather than leaving the fictional world open for another conventional adventure.

Readers sometimes confuse publication order with the internal chronology of Narnia. The Magician’s Nephew tells an earlier story about the creation of Narnia but was published fifth, in 1955. The Last Battle was published afterward and remains the concluding volume in both the series’ publication history and its overall narrative arc.