His dark materials
by Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far north, where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought...
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Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Belacqua, lyra (fictitious character), fiction, Non-classifiable, Kidnapping, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Action & Adventure, Juvenile fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Social Themes, Fantasy, Experiments, Missing persons, Children's stories, English, Adaptations, Drama, Magic, Good and evil, Drama texts: from c 1900 -, Plays, Plays / Drama, General, Drama / General, American, English drama, Children's plays, Experimental Psychobiology, New York Times reviewed, English Fantasy fiction, Lyra Belacqua (Fictitious character), Will Parry (Fictitious character)People
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"The Golden Compass was originally published in Great Britain by Scholastic Children's Books in 1995 under the title His Dark Materials I: Northern Lights"--Copyright p.
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