His Dark Materials Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set by Philip Pullman (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglas)

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Freitas, Donna; King, Jason Edward (2007). Killing the imposter God: Philip Pullman's spiritual imagination in His Dark Materials. San Francisco, CA: Wiley. pp.68–9. ISBN 978-0-7879-8237-9. Dafne Keen as Lyra, with Pantalaimon, in the BBC’s His Dark Materials. Photograph: Screen Grab/BBC/Bad Wolf/HBORowan, Williams (10 March 2004). "Archbishop wants Pullman in class". BBC News Online . Retrieved 10 March 2004. Mary Malone, is a physicist and former nun from Will's world. She meets Lyra during Lyra's first visit to Will's world. Lyra provides Mary with insight into the nature of Dust. Agents of the Church force Mary to flee to the world of the Mulefa. There she constructs the amber spyglass, which enables her to see the otherwise invisible Dust. Her purpose is to learn why Dust, which Mulefa civilisation depends on, is flowing out of the universe.

Pullman has identified three major literary influences on His Dark Materials: the essay On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist, [13] the works of William Blake, and, most important, John Milton's Paradise Lost, from which the trilogy derives its title. [14] In his introduction, he adapts a famous description of Milton by Blake to quip that he (Pullman) "is of the Devil's party and does know it".The Four Gallivespians—Lord Roke, Madame Oxentiel, Chevalier Tialys, and Lady Salmakia—are tiny people (a hand-span tall) with poisonous heel spurs. Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been – and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned . . . Read more Details Anyway, the final part, The Amber Spyglass, was published in 2000, and I went on to write other things. But Lyra hadn’t finished the journey towards experience: she’d only begun it. There were many things she had yet to learn, and I was curious to see how this would happen. These books were faced with a lot of criticism from the Catholic Church, and some people believe the true meaning of the books is anti-god. In 2008 His Dark Materials books came second for one of the most banned books in the world. What is the best way to read His Dark Materials books?