“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis , The Chronicles of Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), Ch. 1
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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