Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1997, Mass Market)

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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345413350
ISBN-139780345413352
eBay Product ID (ePID)177367

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Book TitleGolden Compass
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFantasy / General, Fantasy & Magic, General
Publication Year1997
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Fiction
AuthorPhilip Pullman
Book SeriesHis Dark Materials Ser.
FormatMass Market

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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight6.5 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.2 in

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LCCN96-093072
Reviews"As always, Pullman is a master at combining impeccable characterizations and seamless plotting, maintaining a crackling pace to create scene upon scene of almost unbearable tension.  This glittering gem will leave readers of all ages eagerly awaiting the next installment of Lyra's adventures."--(starred review),Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition., "As always, Pullman is a master at combining impeccable characterizations and seamless plotting, maintaining a crackling pace to create scene upon scene of almost unbearable tension.  This glittering gem will leave readers of all ages eagerly awaiting the next installment of Lyra's adventures."--(starred review), Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition.
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromSeventh Grade
Series Volume NumberBk. 1
Dewey Decimal823.914
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
SynopsisIn a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall.  Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors.  First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe.  He leaves Lyra in the care of  Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her.  In this multilayered  narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title.  All around her children are disappearing-victims of so-called "Gobblers"-and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being.  And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.  

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