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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Huang jin luo pan
430 pages
Chinese language
Published May 17, 2007 by Miao si chu ban you xian gong si.
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The Golden Compass, 20th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials)
hardcover, 432 pages
Published Sept. 22, 2015 by Knopf Books for Young Readers.
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Northern Lights ILLUST C WORMELL
paperback, 448 pages
Published Aug. 23, 2017 by Scholastic.
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Northern Lights
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Published by Chivers Press Ltd.
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- 978-0-7540-5185-5Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
Audio Cassette
Published by Chivers Press Ltd.
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Northern Lights
Audio CD
Published May 1, 2001 by Chivers Press Ltd.
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- 978-0-7540-6526-5Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
Audio Cassette
Published Oct. 31, 1999 by BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
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- 978-0-7540-7074-0Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
448 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2019 by Scholastic.
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- 978-1-4071-9875-0Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
eBook
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2001 by Random House Children's Books.
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- 978-0-440-41860-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 232333121
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials Trilogy)
Turtleback, 351 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2004 by Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media.
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- 978-0-606-29887-2Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
Audio Cassette
English language
Published Aug. 17, 2000 by Listening Library.
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- 978-0-8072-8143-7Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
416 pages
English language
Published Oct. 23, 1998 by Scholastic Point.
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- 978-0-590-66054-9Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
400 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2020 by Scholastic.
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- 978-0-7023-0508-5Copied 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
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Published May 1, 2001 by Chivers Press Ltd.
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