![]() 1950s children may have recognised Eustace Clarence Scrubb immediately as the worst kind of rotter. But the dry humour in those words remains contemporary. This is the boarding-school jargon of the 1950s. We don't say masters now, but teachers, or father and mother, but mum and dad. Written fifty years ago, the opening words of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of C S Lewis' Narnian books, are both anachronistic and contemporary. ![]() In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on beds and the windows were always open.' They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotallers and wore a special kind of underclothes. They were very up-to-date and advanced people. He didn't call his Father and Mother "Father" and "Mother", but Harold and Alberta. I can't tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had none. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and his masters called him Scrubb. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. Don't miss it and don't let them miss it either. ![]() Summary: The third (not the fifth!) book in the most wonderful fantasy series ever written for children. ![]()
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