The adventures in C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe begin in a rambling old British manor house in an empty room with nothing but a wardrobe. 

Looking inside, Lucy saw several coats hanging up—mostly long fur coats. There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them. Soon she found a second row of coats and took two or three steps in. "This must be an enormous wardrobe!" thought Lucy.

Then she noticed that there was something crunching under her feet and she was rubbing her face, not against coats, but against tree limbs. A moment later she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air u…