Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
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The wardrobe

Also known as magic wardrobe, the wardrobe, wardrobe door

A wardrobe made from the wood of a tree grown from a Narnian apple. In Professor Kirke’s country house, it becomes the Pevensies’ first doorway into Narnia.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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In the chronicles

These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe15 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 21…yed behind because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily, and two moth…Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 22… liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew…Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 13"I--I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy.Open passage →
  4. Chapter II · paragraph 56…e a patch of light that looked like daylight. "Yes," she said, "I can see the wardrobe door."Open passage →
  5. Chapter III · paragraph 10…hat I said," answered Lucy. "It was just after breakfast when I went into the wardrobe, and I've been away for hours and hours, and had tea, and all sorts of things have happened."Open passage →
  6. Chapter III · paragraph 13"No, Peter, I'm not," she said. "It's--it's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing, and there's a Faun and a witch and it's called Narnia; come and se…Open passage →
  7. Chapter IV · paragraph 41"All right," said Edmund, "I see you were right and it is a magic wardrobe after all. I'll say I'm sorry if you like. But where on earth have you been all this time? I've been looking fo…Open passage →
  8. Chapter IV · paragraph 53… them instead of branches and next moment they were both standing outside the wardrobe in the empty room.Open passage →
  9. Chapter V · paragraph 2…l true. Edmund has seen it too. There is a country you can get to through the wardrobe. Edmund and I both got in. We met one another in there, in the wood. Go on, Edmund; tell them all about it."Open passage →
  10. Chapter V · paragraph 6…and I have been playing--pretending that all her story about a country in the wardrobe is true. Just for fun, of course. There's nothing there really."Open passage →
  11. Chapter VI · paragraph 19… we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."Open passage →
  12. Chapter VI · paragraph 20… I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."Open passage →
  13. Chapter X · paragraph 35…m and hear them talked about even in our world--the world on this side of the wardrobe door. But when you really see them in Narnia it is rather different. Some of the pictures of Father Christmas i…Open passage →
  14. Chapter XVII · paragraph 39…anches but through coats. And next moment they all came tumbling out of a wardrobe door into the empty room, and they were no longer Kings and Queens in their hunting array but just Peter, Susan, Edm…Open passage →
  15. Chapter XVII · paragraph 40…o," he said, "I don't think it will be any good trying to go back through the wardrobe door to get the coats. You won't get into Narnia again by that route. Nor would the coats be much use by now if…Open passage →
The Horse and His Boy2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 40… even heard of. And if you've read a book called The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe you may like to know that this was the very same Faun, Tumnus by name, whom Queen Susan's sister Lucy had met o…Open passage →
  2. Chapter XV · paragraph 46…is and Cor, heard it many times but they all wanted it again) the tale of the Wardrobe and how she and King Edmund and Queen Susan and Peter the High King had first come into Narnia.Open passage →
Prince Caspian2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 1…Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure. They had opened the door of a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a qui…Open passage →
  2. Chapter III · paragraph 11… however long we seemed to have lived in Narnia, when we got back through the wardrobe it seemed to have taken no time at all?"Open passage →
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CharacterDigory Kirke

A London boy whose attempt to save his mother leads him through the Wood between the Worlds and into the creation of Narnia.

→ObjectApple of Youth

A silver apple from the western garden, capable of restoring health while reflecting the intention with which it is taken.

→PlaceLantern Waste

A forested region in western Narnia centered on the Lamp-post.

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