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 …
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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
Paperback, 368 pages
English language
Published Sept. 9, 2003 by Laurel Leaf.
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- 978-0-440-23813-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 53190697
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials)
School & Library Binding, 399 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2002 by Tandem Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-613-71928-5Copied ISBN!
Der Goldene Kompass
Paperback, 576 pages
German language
Published Jan. 1, 1999 by Carlsen Verlag GmbH.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-551-35123-4Copied ISBN!
Der Goldene Kompass
Paperback, 576 pages
German language
Published Jan. 1, 1999 by Carlsen Verlag GmbH.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-551-35123-4Copied 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!
The Golden Compass
Paperback, 399 pages
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-82345-9Copied ISBN!
Les royaumes du nord
355 pages
French language
Published May 17, 1999 by Gallimard jeunesse.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-050997-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 48657814
The golden compass
399 pages
English language
Published May 17, 1998 by Alfred A. Knopf.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-89310-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 39724522
The golden compass
574 pages
English language
Published May 17, 2002 by Thorndike Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7862-4123-1Copied ISBN!
Northern lights
399 pages
English language
Published May 17, 1995 by Scholastic Children's Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-590-54178-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 33335186
The golden compass
English language
Published May 17, 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-83830-9Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
English language
Published May 17, 2011 by Scholastic Books.
- ISBN:
- 9789999423304Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
351 pages
English language
Published Oct. 17, 1999 by Sagebrush Education Resources.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-613-02699-4Copied ISBN!
La bussola d'oro.
354 pages
Italian language
Published Sept. 11, 2004 by Salani.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-8451-182-9Copied ISBN!
Luces del norte
379 pages
Spanish language
Published May 17, 2007 by Ediciones B.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-666-1868-7Copied ISBN!
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