The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Literary Precedents
Lewis has acknowledged his debts in the shaping of his imagination in many contexts. The major names which he has cited are Edith Nesbit, George MacDonald, Andrew Lang, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rider Haggard. The creations of other worlds coexisting with this one and entered through a door or a cave or a hole in the ground were read by him: Lewis Carroll's Alice books, Jules Verne's Voyage to the Center of the Earth (1864) are two among many which he had read.
Those who have written about Lewis comment on his having been an extraordinarily widely-read man who retained all which he...
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