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| THE HORSE AND HIS BOY Spoiler alert: Plot details follow! This book is different from the other Narnia stories; it's the only book which does not involve children coming from England to Narnia. The heroes are two children and two talking horses, who are fleeing from the land of Calormen to Narnia, during the reign of Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, at the end of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The boy Shasta is the adopted son of a fisherman, and Aravis is a noble girl escaping marriage to an objectionable lord. "The cloud was bigger and thicker than it had looked at first and soon the night grew very dark. Just as Shasta was saying to himself, 'We must be nearly at those sandhills by now,' his heart leaped into his mouth because an appalling noise had suddenly risen up out of the darkness ahead; a long snarling roar, melancholy and utterly savage. Instantly Bree swerved round and began galloping inland again as fast as he could gallop" (Shasta meets Aravis). As they cross through the capital city of Calormen, the Narnian royal family are visiting and Shasta turns out to be the spitting image of young Prince Cor. When Shasta learns of a Calormene plot to invade Narnian territory, he has to get there alone in time to warn them. He finally discovers the secret of his birth – and of who has been helping them on their travels. Click here for the other Narnia books. |
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