Coulter, she joins a group of ''gyptians'' in search of their children, who, like Roger, have been spirited away by Mrs.

After escaping from the charming and sinister Mrs. Deceptions and treacheries threaten at every turn, and she is not yet certain how to read the mysterious truth-telling instrument that is her only guide. The story line has all the hallmarks of a myth: brought up ignorant of her true identity, 11-year-old Lyra goes on a quest from East Anglia to the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate Roger and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel. Here Earth is one of only five planets in the solar system, every human has a daemon (the soul embodied as an animal familiar) and, in a time similar to our late 19th century, Oxford scholars and agents of the supreme Calvinist Church are in a race to unleash the power that will enable them to cross the bridge to a parallel universe.

'Pullman is quite possibly a genius.If Pullman's imagination dazzled in the Victorian thrillers that culminated with The Tin Princess, in this first volume of a fantasy trilogy it is nothing short of breathtaking. 'Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years.' -The Washington Post North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Ĭan one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra : a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.īut what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.Ī masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal-including her friend Roger. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach. HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA! Paperback movie tie-in edition of 1995 book, in Like New condition. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1, a novel by Philip Pullman (Yearling, 2001).

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