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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Der goldene Kompaß
410 pages
German language
Published Dec. 20, 2005 by Heyne.
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- 978-3-453-72059-6Copied ISBN!
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- 162298779
The golden compass
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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- 978-0-375-83830-9Copied ISBN!
Luces del Norte
Hardcover
Spanish language
Published May 16, 1997 by Ediciones B.
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- 978-84-406-6805-9Copied ISBN!
His Dark Materials: Northern Lights
English language
Published Dec. 20, 2007 by Scholastic.
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- 978-1-4071-0569-7Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
English language
Published Dec. 20, 2013 by Scholastic.
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- 978-1-4071-3975-3Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
audio cd
Published Nov. 13, 2007 by audiobooksonline.co.uk.
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- 978-1-906128-27-2Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
English language
Published Dec. 20, 2007 by Scholastic.
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- 978-0-439-94466-3Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
448 pages
Published Aug. 31, 2017 by Scholastic India.
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- 978-1-4071-3022-4Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
English language
Published Dec. 20, 2009 by Galaxy Plus.
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- 978-1-4056-6348-9Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
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Published Aug. 28, 2006 by Random House.
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- 978-0-7393-7483-2Copied ISBN!
La bussola d'oro.
354 pages
Italian language
Published Sept. 11, 2004 by Salani.
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- 978-88-8451-182-9Copied ISBN!
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- 9891312
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
Paperback
English language
Published Oct. 1, 1999 by Ballantine Books.
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- 978-0-345-91640-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 664234344
Luces Del Norte
Paperback
Spanish language
Published Oct. 16, 2002 by Distribooks.
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- OCLC Number:
- 433132003
The Golden Compass
Published Jan. 1, 2007 by Playaway Digital Audio.
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- 978-1-60514-032-2Copied ISBN!
His Dark Materials: Northern Lights
Published July 5, 2018 by Scholastic.
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