The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

In the first published book of The Chronicles of Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie are sent away to escape from the London blitzes in 1940.  They go to a Professor Kirke's house in the country, where, on a rainy day,  Lucy, the youngest, discovers a large wardrobe in a disused room.  She decides to explore it, and doing so, discovers a snow-covered forest with a burning lamp-post a little way into it.  While pondering the ridiculous existence of a lamp-post in the middle of a wood, a faun comes on the scene, sees Lucy, is initially frightened, but eventually calms down enough to invite the girl to tea.  His name is Mr. Tumnus, and he explains to Lucy where she is, and why it has been winter for about one hundred years (the White Witch has put an evil spell on Narnia to make it "always winter and never Christmas").  After tea, Mr. Tumnus puts Lucy to sleep with his flute.  When she wakes up, he is crying because he was going to give her to the White Witch, whom he works for.  He says that if he doesn't give Lucy to the Witch, she'l turn him into stone with her magic wand.  He promises that he won't give her to the Witch, and guides her back to the lamp-post, where Lucy finds her way back to the wardrobe and the country house.  She tells her older siblings what she has seen, and they go to investigate, but find only an ordinary wardrobe.  Edmund treats Lucy particularly badly about the whole thing, and Lucy is hurt until the next rainy day when the siblings play Hide and Seek.  Lucy does not intend to hide in the wardrobe, but must see if she was imagining things or not, so she goes back to have another look.  Edmund follows her.  He is extremely surprised to find a snowy forest in the wardrobe, and no Lucy.  He goes looking for her, and meets a woman, riding in a sleigh driven by a nasty-looking dwarf.  She is entirely white, wears a crown, and carries a wand.  She finds out that Edmund is a human boy, and suddenly takes an interest in him.  She gives him enchanted Turkish Delight, which makes him like the woman very much, and he tells her all about Peter, Susan, and Lucy.  He finishes the Turkish Delight, and she says that if he brings his siblings to Narnia, she will give him more. She gives him directions to her castle (it's between two large hills), and shows him the way back to the lamp-post.  She then drives away.  When Edmund gets back to the lamp-post, Lucy is there too, and comments on his greenish complexion.  She tells him about the White Witch, and Edmund wonders if he's made friends with a singularly dangerous person.  But he really does feel ill, and wants to find Peter and Susan, who are still playing Hide and Seek.  They find them, and Lucy says that it really is a magic wardrobe and that Edmund has seen it all, too.  She urges him to tell the two elder siblings about it.  Edmund does an incredibly despicable thing.  He says that he and Lucy were only pretending; playing a silly game.  Lucy runs off, crying, and Peter chews Edmund out thoroughly.  After that, Peter and Susan decide to see the Professor about it, because they are afraid that Lucy might be a bit touched in the head.  He assures them that she is not mad, and that since they can't be sure she's not telling lies, they must assume that Lucy is telling the truth about the wardrobe.  Peter and Susan find this a little hard to swallow, but accept it and make Edmund promise not to say a word to Lucy about the whole business, and to stay away from the wardrobe room altogether.  One day, the housekeeper takes a pack of lady tourists through the house because it's quite an historical place.  The siblings are practically chased through the house, and they end up having to hide inside the wardrobe.  Peter comments on how cold and wet it is, and Susan adds that it gets lighter in the distance.  Edmund is nervous, but Lucy is ecstatic.  They all go farther into the wardrobe-turned-forest, much to Edmund's dismay.