The Silver Chair
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First edition dust jacket
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| Author | C. S. Lewis |
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| Illustrator | Pauline Baynes |
| Cover artist | Pauline Baynes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Genre | Children's fantasy novel, |
| Publisher | Geoffrey Bles |
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Publication date
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7 September 1953 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 217 (first edition) 51,022 words (US) |
| ISBN | (Collins, 1998; full colour) |
| OCLC | 1304139 |
| LC Class | PZ8.L48 Si |
| Preceded by | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
| Followed by | The Horse and His Boy |
The Silver Chair is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1953. It was the fourth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956); it is volume six in recent editions, which are sequenced according to Narnian history. Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.
The novel is set primarily in the world of Narnia, decades after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader there but less than a year later in England. King Caspian X is now an old man, but his son and only heir, Prince Rilian, is missing. Aslan the lion sends two children from England to Narnia on a mission to resolve the mystery: Eustace Scrubb, from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and his classmate, Jill Pole. In the frame story, Eustace and Jill are students at a horrible boarding school, Experiment House.
The Silver Chair is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Colin Hardie, a member of the Inklings with Lewis.
Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year.
The Silver Chair was adapted and filmed as a BBC television series of six episodes in 1990.
Eustace Scrubb, having reformed his character following the events of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, encounters his classmate and new friend Jill Pole at their miserable school Experiment House; she has been tormented by bullies and is hiding from them. Eustace, who was once a bully himself but is now fearing that he will soon be targeted by the gang he was once part of, confides in Jill about his Narnian adventures, and that his experiences there have led to the changes in his behaviour. Jill initially thinks that Eustace is lying, but when he promises and asks her to attempt to go to Narnia with him, she agrees. Eustace suggests asking for Aslan's help, and as the bullies converge on them, the two blunder through a gate that leads them to Aslan's Country.
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