Lancelyn Green wrote : The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , completed by the end of March 1949 and published by Geoffrey Bles in the United Kingdom on 16 October 1950 , tells the story of four ordinary children : Peter , Susan , Edmund , and Lucy Pevensie , who have been evacuated to the English countryside from London in 1940 following the outbreak of World War II .
The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe was completed by the end of March 1949 and published by Geoffrey Bles in London on 16 October 1950 .