[ SECRET POST #2273 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2273 ⌋

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Comments

[kamino_neko]

Because that's the order they were written in, because that's the order Lewis got the ideas in. He didn't write The Magician's Nephew and The Horse and His Boy, then wait until after publishing Lion through Silver Chair because he thought they worked better there...he wrote Lion through Silver Chair, worked out some of the history of Narnia and Calormen, and wrote stories around them, which then got published as they were written, and which he felt worked at least as well in the order they happened as in the order they were written.

[(Anonymous)]

According to CS Lewis publication order is not writing order, and writing order isn't even the order he got the ideas. Lewis wrote to a fan who was having the publication/reading order debate with his mom and said:
"I think I agree with your [internal chronological timeline] order for reading the books more than with your mother's. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last, but I found I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. I’m not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published"

[kamino_neko]

OK, so the last four may not have been published in the order he wrote them (though most likely they were unless some of them needed significant revision - none of them have the Tolkien Estate-esque 'let's dredge up some random manuscript to cash in' flavour). He still states, explicitly, that the first three published books were written first with no intentions for further materials in the universe, meaning that the two (TWO) books whose placement varies based on publishing/chronological order were, in fact, conceived, and written, after the books that the chronological order places them before were published, so could not have been held back, making the publication order doesn't have anything to do with it.