纳尼亚传奇Ⅲ黎明行者号(The Chronicles of Narnia Ⅲ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)简介:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis.
Written in 1950, it was published in 1952 as the third book of The Chronicles of
Narnia. Current editions of the series are numbered using the internal
chronological order making Dawn Treader the fifth book.
The two youngest Pevensie children, Lucy and Edmund, are staying with their
odious cousin Eustace Scrubb while their older brother Peter is studying for his
university entrance exams with Professor Kirke, and their older sister Susan is
traveling through America. Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace are drawn into the Narnian
world, literally pulled into a picture of a ship at sea. (The painting, hanging
neglected in the guest bedroom that the Pevensie children were using, had been
an unwanted present to Eustace's parents.) The three children land in the water
near the pictured vessel, the titular Dawn Treader, and are taken aboard.
The Dawn Treader is the ship of Caspian X, King of Narnia, who was the key
character in the previous book (Prince Caspian). Edmund and Lucy (along with
Peter and Susan) helped him gain the throne from his evil uncle Miraz.
Three years have passed since then, peace has been established in Narnia, and
Caspian has undertaken his oath to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. Lucy and
Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic, as
he has never been there before and had taunted his cousins with his belief that
the country never existed. The talking mouse Reepicheep is also on board, as he
hopes to find Aslan's country beyond the seas of the "utter East".
They first make landfall in the Lone Islands, nominally Narnian territory but
fallen away from Narnian ways: in particular the slave trade flourishes here,
despite Narnian law stating that it is forbidden. Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, Eustace
and Reepicheep are captured as merchandise by a slave trader, and a man "buys"
Caspian before they even reach the slave market. He turns out to be the first
lost lord, Lord Bern, who moved to the islands and married a woman there after
being banished from Narnia by Miraz. When Caspian reveals his identity, Bern
acknowledges him as King. Caspian reclaims the islands for Narnia, and replaces
Gumpas, the greedy governor, with Lord Bern, whom he names Duke of the Lone
Islands.
At the second island they visit, Eustace leaves the group to avoid doing any
work, and hides in a dead dragon's cave to escape a sudden downpour. The
dragon's treasure arouses his greed: he fills his pockets with gold and jewels
and puts on a large golden bracelet; but as he sleeps, he is transformed into a
dragon. As a dragon, he becomes aware of how bad his previous behaviour was, and
uses his strength to help make amends. Aslan turns Eustace back into a boy, now
a much nicer person. Caspian recognizes the bracelet when Eustace is finally
able to get it off: it belonged to Lord Octesian, another of the lost lords.
They speculate that the dragon killed Octesian — or even that the dragon was
Octesian.
They make stops at Burnt Island; at Deathwater Island (so named for a pool of
water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including one of the
missing lords who turns out to have been Lord Restimar); at the Duffers' Island;
and at the Island Where Dreams Come True — called the Dark Island since it is
permanently hidden in darkness. They rescue a desperate Lord Rhoop from this
last. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three
remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. Ramandu, the fallen star who lives on
the island, tells them that the only way to awaken them is to sail to the edge
of the world and there to leave one member of the crew behind.
The Dawn Treader continues sailing into an area where merpeople dwell and the
water turns sweet rather than salty. At last the water becomes so shallow that
the ship can go no farther. Caspian orders a boat lowered and announces that he
will go to the world's end with Reepicheep. The crew object, saying that as King
of Narnia he has no right to abandon them. Caspian goes to his cabin in a
temper, but returns to say that Aslan appeared in his cabin and told him that
only Lucy, Edmund, Eustace, and Reepicheep will go on.
These last venture in a small boat through an ocean of flowers until they reach
a wall of water that extends into the sky. Fulfilling Ramandu's condition,
Reepicheep paddles his coracle up the waterfall and is never again seen in
Narnia (Lewis hints that he reaches Aslan's country). Edmund, Eustace, and Lucy
find a lamb, who transforms into Aslan and tells them that Edmund and Lucy will
not return to Narnia – that they should learn to know him by another name in
their own world. He then sends the children home.
In their own world, everyone remarks on how Eustace has changed and "you'd never
know him for the same boy" - although his mother does not acknowledge this and
believes that Edmund and Lucy have been a bad influence on
him.这一年的暑假,爱德蒙和露西无奈地必须到剑桥的姨妈家渡过。父母带着姊姊苏珊到美国讲学,大哥彼得则到老寇克教授家用功,只好把爱德蒙和露西托给姨妈。爱德蒙和露西不太情愿,是因为必须忍受个性有点惹人讨厌的表兄弟-尤斯提史瓜。某天爱德蒙和露西正在讨论纳尼亚的种种,尤斯提一旁听到后又开始冷嘲热讽,没想到突然间三人居然被吸入房间墙上一幅航海的画中。