The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass - His Dark Materials;

1st Edition

Hardback (16 Apr 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials!

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Book information

ISBN: 9780679879244
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Imprint: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: [Fic]
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 399
Weight: 590g
Height: 222mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 38mm