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C. S. Lewis

The Last Battle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

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Chapters 13-16

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Chapter 13 Summary: “How the Dwarfs Refused to be Taken In”

Tirian thought they were in a little stable, but they are standing outside on grass under a blue sky. A grove of trees with beautifully colored fruit is nearby. Everyone pauses hesitates picking fruit, but King Peter declares they are in the country “where everything is allowed” (125). Nothing in the human world compares to the fruit’s delicious taste. Peter tells how he and Edmund arrived in Narnia. They were standing on the station platform and saw Eustace’s train taking the bend too fast. Their parents were aboard the same train. Edmund says there was a roar and something hit him, but it did not hurt. Lord Digory says it was the same for their group on the train. He and Polly suddenly stopped feeling old.

When the group arrived, nothing happened until the door opened. Peter tells Tirian that he saw Tirian came through that door with Rishda a few minutes ago. Tirian then sees a wooden door in a door frame standing by itself in the open air. He walks entirely around it. Peter urges Tirian to look through a crack in the door; when he does, Tirian sees the bonfire. Digory says the inside of

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