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Old 05-11-2025, 05:16 AM   #57
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Except that it has spoilers and retcons for books written earlier. For example, the origin of the White Witch as Queen Jadis of Charn, speaker of the Deplorable Word while in the earlier Narnia books, she was a "native" of Narnia.
And the Professor's comments to the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe lose impact if you already know he is Digory. I think Digory and Polly are only by name in the Magician's Nephew and the Last Battle.

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Similarly the Recluse books have an internal chronology, but it would spoil the first to know about the crash landed spacecraft and other things.
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