His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) Paperback - 2002
by Philip Pullman
The first title in the Dark Materials trilogy, now newly repackaged. Content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College with her daemon familiar Pantalaimon by her side, Lyra Belaqua is jarred by the arrival of her fearsome uncle. Soon, she's drawn into a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans, and armored bears, never suspecting the shocking truth.
First line
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
From the jacket flap
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.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1)
- Author Philip Pullman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, New York
- Date 2002-09-10
- ISBN 9780375823459 / 037582345X
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 10 to UP years
- Grade levels 5 - UP
- Reading level 930
- Library of Congress subjects Kidnapping, Fantasy
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 09/16/2002, Page 0
- PW Notes and Reprints, 09/16/2002, Page 70
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