Carefully kept from new and never opened, the cover art is the same as the UK original paperbacks on the front panel with blue spines and rear panels. Maroon, green and orange cloth respectively, each with gilt titles and Volume II with gilt-blocked dagger motif to upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jackets designed by David Scutt, with gilt Library Association Carnegie Medal label to Volume I. Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. The great rebellion against the dark powers that hold Lyra's world, and many others, in thrall is nearing its climax.

The series was initially adapted to the big screen under the name 'The Golden Compass' to mixed reviews. And this girl with her daemon goes on a journey which they knows nothing about, with people they never met, for causes they don't understand.

His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. This is another paragraph Book Description: Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. During the childhood of its associated human, a dæmon can change its animal shape at will, but with the onset of adolescence it settles into a fixed, final animal form. Paperbacks(small nick on the edges of the covers) in near fine condition, with an illustrated slipcase(small tear and some nicks on the edges of the slipcase) in VGC. Took a year to get the time to read this cracking story just getting to the end my copy has lost 33 pages jumps from 976 to 1009 .

In Jordan College, Oxford, 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon Pantalaimon witness the Master attempt to poison Lord Asriel, Lyra's rebellious and adventuring uncle. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Will has found a small window between Cittagazze (a place where children roam unchecked but invisible Specters suck the spirit out of adults) and his Oxford, which, with its Burger Kings and cars, is frighteningly different from the Oxford Lyra knows. On 25 May 2005, Pullman received the Swedish government's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's and youth literature (sharing it with Japanese illustrator Ryōji Arai).

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Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. While Sam Elliott blamed the Catholic Church's opposition for forcing the cancellation of any adaptations of the rest of the trilogy, The Guardian 's film critic Stuart Heritage believed disappointing reviews may have been the real reason. It's printed on very thin paper in small-than-usual text too, so for those of you that don't have the best eyesight, this may present a problem - but for anyone else this is a definite must-purchase if you're a fan of well-written fantasy.Lyra's Oxford is a short book by Philip Pullman depicting an episode involving the heroine of His Dark Materials, Pullman's best-selling trilogy. Malone to attempt to communicate with the particles, and when she does they tell her to travel into the Cittàgazze world.

The three novels have won a number of awards, most notably the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, won by The Amber Spyglass. Pullman followed the trilogy with three novellas set in the Northern Lights universe: Lyra's Oxford (2003), Once Upon a Time in the North (2008), and Serpentine (2020). Si no tienes idea previa de estos libros, arriesgate, la combinacion de fantasia, religion, ciencia y politica que manejan estos libros son aptos para cualquier edad y persona de mente abierta.The only other hardback edition of the three books has been the three volumes which were issued by the Folio Society which which were rather mediocre in their illustrations (in the humble opinion of the reviewer here) and were the slightly censored American editions which removed some of the mildly racy passages which talked about the heroine, Lyra's ripening and blossoming sexuality.