The Silver Chair

At the very end of the reign of King Caspian X, the second adventure of Eustace Clarence Scrubb in Narnia takes place. His cousins, the Pevensies, who had become kings and queens of Narnia in the past, had grown up, and now it was time to pass the scepter on. His classmate Jill Pole became Eustace's right-hand woman, and not quite voluntarily. Both of them together completed the Caspian Trilogy and definitely did not put their predecessors to shame. And just as Lucy couldn't let go of Mr. Tumnus, Eustace and Jill ended up liking Puddleglum this time - the aquatic creature, through which we have been allowed to understand the foundations of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." (03.02.2009)