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The golden compass

His Dark Materials: Book I

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An edition of Northern Lights (1995)

The golden compass

His Dark Materials: Book I

Deluxe 10th anniversary ed.
  • 4.0 (199 ratings) ·
  • 615 Want to read
  • 31 Currently reading
  • 269 Have read

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English

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2009, Galaxy Plus
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2004, Albatros
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1998, Scholastic
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Edition Notes

Includes "Notes from Lord Asriel from the Jordan College Library" and other materials that complement the original text.
Sequel: The subtle knife.

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New York
Series
His dark materials ;

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.P968 Go 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3416316M
ISBN 10
0375838309
LCCN
2005032556
Library Thing
3261
Goodreads
18115
608528

Work Description

In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.

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Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
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