The Pevensie children enter the fictional world of Narnia in C.S. Lewis’s fantasy novels. Narnia is the setting of The Chronicles of Narnia, a seven-book series published between 1950 and 1956.
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are central characters in several of the books, especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They encounter talking animals, mythical creatures, kings, queens, and the lion Aslan. The stories also follow other human children, including Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole.
Narnia is not simply another name for Earth. In Lewis’s fiction, it is a separate world with its own history, geography, rulers, and creation story. The series connects Narnia to Earth through magical passages such as the wardrobe, rings, and paintings.
Readers sometimes confuse Narnia with Middle-earth, the setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings. Lewis and Tolkien were friends and members of the informal Inklings literary group, but they created separate fictional universes with different characters and mythologies.