【导读】　《最后一战》是英国作家C·S·刘易斯创作的《纳尼亚传奇》系列小说的最后一部。该书是"纳尼亚传奇"的终结篇。国王蒂莲为了解救纳尼亚的生灵向狮王阿斯兰求救，唤来了尤斯塔斯和吉尔。他们救出蒂莲国王，带领独角兽等忠诚的动物，同卡乐门军队、反叛的野兽以及小矮人展开了惊心动魄的战斗。狮王力挽狂澜，开天辟地，用至高无上的力量打造了一个崭新的纳尼亚。

　　Night Falls on Narnia(Excerpt)

　　They all stood beside Aslan, on his right side, and looked through the open doorway.

　　The bonfire had gone out. On the earth all was blackness: in fact you could not have told that you were looking into a wood if you had not seen where the dark shapes of the trees ended and the stars began. But when Aslan had roared yet again, out on their left they saw another black shape. That is, they saw another patch where there were no stars: and the patch rose up higher and higher and became the shape of a man, the hugest of all giants. They all knew Narnia well enough to work out where he must be standing. He must be on the high moorlands that stretch away to the North beyond the River Shribble. Then Jill and Eustace remembered how once long ago, in the deep caves beneath those moors, they had seen a great giant asleep and been told that his name was Father Time, and that he would wake on the day the world ended.

　　"Yes，" said Aslan, though they had not spoken. "While he lay dreaming his name was Time. Now that he is awake he will have a new one."

　　Then the great giant raised a horn to his mouth. They could see this by the change of the black shape he made against the stars. After that － quite a bit later, because sound travels so slowly － they heard the sound of the horn: high and terrible, yet of a strange, deadly beauty.

Immediately the sky became full of shooting stars. Even one shooting star is a fine thing to see; but these were dozens, and then scores, and then hundreds, till it was like silver rain: and it went on and on. And when it had gone on for some while, one