The Silver Chair is part of The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels written by C. S. Lewis. It was the fourth book published and is the sixth book chronologically. It is the first book published in the series in which the Pevensie children do not appear. The main characters are Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole. Queen Lucy, Queen Susan, and King Edmund are not in this story, but High King Peter is mentioned by several Narnians in the book. It is one of the series of the Caspian Triad, in which King Caspian the Tenth is a character.
The book is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Lewis's fellow Inkling Colin Hardie.
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