Experiment House
Also known as the Experiment House
The progressive school attended by Eustace and Jill. Its failures in discipline frame their departure for Narnia and their changed return.
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In the chronicles
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The Silver Chair9 cited passages⌄
- Chapter I · paragraph 21
Eustace gave a shudder. Everyone at Experiment House knew what it was like being "attended to" by Them.
Open passage → - Chapter I · paragraph 41
…ould have said, "I swear by the Bible." But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.)
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 57
"Son of Adam and daughter of Eve, hey?" said the Dwarf. But people at Experiment House haven't heard of Adam and Eve, so Jill and Eustace couldn't answer this. But the Dwarf didn't seem to notice.
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 72
…o you see? I mean, however long we spend here, we shall still get back to Experiment House at the moment we left it----"
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 59
… made an awkward attempt at a bow (girls are not taught how to curtsey at Experiment House) and the young giant carefully put Puddleglum down on the floor, where he collapsed into a sort of sitting posi…
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 23
Of course a lot of things darted into Jill's head at once: Experiment House, Adela Pennyfather, her own home, radio-sets, cinemas, cars, aeroplanes, ration-books, queues. But they seemed …
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 22
… changed. He looked much more like the Prince than like the old Scrubb at Experiment House. For all his adventures, and the days when he had sailed with King Caspian, were coming back to him.
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 57
…plained to Caspian what Jill and Eustace were going back to and all about Experiment House: he seemed to know it quite as well as they did.
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 62
…apidly through the wood, and before they had gone many paces, the wall of Experiment House appeared before them. Then Aslan roared so that the sun shook in the sky and thirty feet of the wall fell down …
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