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 …
The Golden Compass
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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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The Golden Compass
library binding, 399 pages
Published Nov. 3, 2008
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- 978-1-4395-6794-4Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
hardcover, 224 pages
Published Sept. 26, 2017 by Turtleback Books.
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- 978-0-606-40797-7Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
library binding, 351 pages
Published Nov. 13, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4395-2131-1Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
Hardcover, 432 pages
Published Sept. 22, 2008 by Folio Society., Brand: Retailer-exclusive titles.
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- 978-1-4071-0637-3Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
Hardcover, 448 pages
Published Nov. 6, 2014 by Scholastic, Scholastic Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4071-5332-2Copied ISBN!
The golden compass
574 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2002 by Thorndike Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7862-4123-1Copied ISBN!
Mroczne materie I
447 pages
Polish language
Published Dec. 20, 2004 by Albatros.
- ISBN:
- 978-83-7359-065-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 224881746
The Golden Compass
library binding
Published May 22, 1997 by Demco Media.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-606-12945-9Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
Mass Market Paperback, 351 pages
English language
Published March 30, 1997 by Del Rey.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-345-41335-2Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2011 by Scholastic Books.
- ISBN:
- 9789999423304Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
Paperback, 399 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-82345-9Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
416 pages
English language
Published Oct. 23, 1998 by Scholastic Point.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-590-66054-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 70947
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
351 pages
English language
Published Oct. 11, 1999 by Sagebrush Education Resources.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-613-02699-4Copied ISBN!
Luces Del Norte
Paperback
Spanish language
Published Feb. 16, 2003 by Biblioteca De Bolsillo.
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- 978-84-663-0673-7Copied ISBN!
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