Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials Trilogy 10th Anniversary Edition)

Philip Pullman

ISBN 10: 0439954614 / ISBN 13: 9780439954617

Published by Scholastic, 2005

About this Item

Tenth Anniversary Edition of His Dark Materials. Northern Lights bright blue boards with silver embossing. Dust Jacket not price clipped. Signed book plate loosely laid. The Subtle Knife Bright red boards with silver embossing Dust jacket not price clipped and signed by means of a book plate loosely laid. The Amber spyglass bright orange boards and silver embossing. Dust jacket not price clipped. Signed by means of a book plate loosely laid. Accompanied by 2 anniversary postcards.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials Trilogy 10th Anniversary Edition)
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0439954614
• ISBN 13: 9780439954617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

When NORTHERN LIGHTS was published in 1995, the adventures of Lyra and her daemon was immediately recognised as a masterpiece of children's fiction. It won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Fiction Award, and has gone on to sell in its millions to children and adult readers across the world.

Review

Lyra's life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she eavesdrops on a presentation by her uncle Lord Asriel to his colleagues in the Jordan College faculty, Oxford. The college, famed for its leadership in experimental theology, is funding Lord Asriel's research into the heretical possibility of the existence of worlds unlike Lyra's own, where everyone is born with a familiar animal companion, magic of a kind works, the Tartars are threatening to overrun Muscovy, and the Pope is a puritanical Protestant. Set in an England familiar and strange, Philip Pullman's lively, taut story is a must-read and re-read for fantasy lovers of all ages. The world-building is outstanding, from the subtle hints of the 1898 Tokay to odd quirks of language to the panserbjorne, while determined, clever Lyra is strongly reminiscent of Joan Aiken's Dido Twite.