The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman

Book 1 of His Dark Materials

Language: English

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Published: Jan 1, 1995

Description:

**THE BOOK OF DUST,* the long-awaited new novel from Philip Pullman set in the world of His Dark Materials, has been* hailed by the ****New York Times*** as "a stunning achievement."****

The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.**

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction
Published in 40 Countries

"Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years." *—The Washington Post *

"Very grand indeed." *—The New York Times

"Pullman is quite possibly a genius." —Newsweek*

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