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# Introduction to Narnia, Books 1-3: Wardrobe, Caspian, Dawn Treader (Mythic Mind, ep. 118)
- URL: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/introduction-to-narnia-books-1-3-wardrobe-caspian-dawn-treader-mythic-mind-ep-118/
- Published: 2025-11-10T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:37:26.000Z
- Author: Andrew Snyder

Mythic MindEpisode 118

# Introduction to Narnia, Books 1-3: Wardrobe, Caspian, Dawn Treader (Mythic Mind, ep. 118)

Dr. Andrew Snyder

10 November 2025

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro29Ic74aLE&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## In this episode

Narnia may be written for children, but it is still Lewis doing the writing. This introduction opens the first three Chronicles as fairy stories dense enough for grown minds: Wardrobe, Caspian, and Dawn Treader in publication order.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) frames how to enter Narnia’s secondary world, why fairy-tale form matters, and what Mars, nature, and voyage themes begin to surface across these early books.

Topics include reading order, the low entry bar that still rewards rereading, and how Narnia continues Lewis’s larger philosophy of story.

### People

**Dr. Andrew Snyder**Host and speaker

### Key themes

- Reading order
- A low entry bar that still rewards rereading
- How Narnia continues Lewis’s philosophy of story

## Related

- [**Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNI3hTdgXB8&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**Mythic Mind 117 - The Great Divorce**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfA0S1KzxM&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**On Fairy-Stories: Subcreation, Escape, and Consolation (Mythic Mind, ep. 36)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0hIBT-Ncss&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**The Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi1eDE8G0dQ&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## Books mentioned

- [**The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe**C.S. Lewis](https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780064404990?ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**Prince Caspian**C.S. Lewis](https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780064409445?ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**The Voyage of the Dawn Treader**C.S. Lewis](https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780064405027?ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

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