❞ قصة The Last Battle ❝ ⏤ C.S. Lewis

هذا القسم يحتوي علي العديد من القصص والروايات باللغة الإنجليزية

(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

    The Last Battle

In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste
and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an Ape. He was
so old that no one could remember when he had first come to live
in those parts, and he was the cleverest, ugliest, most wrinkled
Ape you can imagine. He had a little house, built of wood and thatched
with leaves, up in the fork of a great tree, and his name was Shift.
There were very few Talking Beasts or Men or Dwarfs, or people of
any sort, in that part of the wood, but Shift had one friend and neighbour who was a donkey called Puzzle. At least they both said they
were friends, but from the way things went on you might have thought
Puzzle was more like Shift's servant than his friend. He did all the
work. When they went together to the river, Shift filled the big skin
bottles with water but it was Puzzle who carried them back. When they
wanted anything from the towns further down the river, it was Puzzle
who went down with empty panniers on his back and came back with
the panniers full and heavy.