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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Northern Lights
Audio Cassette
Published May 31, 2000 by BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
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Northern Lights
Audio CD
Published May 1, 2001 by Chivers Press Ltd.
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- 978-0-7540-6524-1Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
Audio Cassette
Published Nov. 11, 1999 by Chivers Press Ltd.
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- 978-0-7540-5128-2Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights (His Dark Materials I) Tenth Anniversary 1995-2005
432 pages
Published Sept. 11, 2005 by London Scholastic 2005..
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- 978-0-439-95461-7Copied ISBN!
Huang jin luo pan
485 pages
Chinese language
Published May 17, 2002 by Gong he guo wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si.
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- 978-986-80109-3-2Copied ISBN!
Northern Lights
Audio Cassette
Published Oct. 31, 1999 by BBC Audiobooks.
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The Golden Compass
library binding, 399 pages
Published Nov. 3, 2008
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The Golden Compass
hardcover, 224 pages
Published Sept. 26, 2017 by Turtleback Books.
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Ōgon no rashinban
Japanese language
Published May 17, 2007 by Shinchōsha.
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- 978-4-10-538904-8Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
Audio Cassette
English language
Published June 11, 2000 by Books On Tape.
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His Dark Materials: Northern Lights
Published July 5, 2018 by Scholastic.
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- 978-1-4071-9118-8Copied ISBN!
The Golden Compass
preloaded digital audio player
Published Aug. 28, 2006 by Random House.
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Northern Lights.
English language
Published Sept. 11, 1996 by Scholastic.
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