So, too, is Philip Pullman, whose Dark Materials trilogy will be devoured by anyone between eight and eighty. Lewis, and Tolkien were all of this cast. Once in a lifetime a children's author emerges who is so extraordinary that the imagination of generations is altered. An astounding achievement.- The Cincinnati Enquirer Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS 2 CAST SERIES
The most magnificent fantasy series since Lord of the Rings.- The Oregonian Masterful storytelling with a cast of instantly beguiling characters.-The Dallas Morning News Pullman is quite possibly a ing the lineaments of fantasy to tell the truth about the universal experience of growing up.- Newsweek Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years If is as good as The Golden Compass, we'll be two thirds of the way to the completion of a modern fantasy classic.
Marvelous the writing is elegant and challenging.-The New Yorker
Powerful a fantasy adventure that sparkles with childlike wonder.-The Boston Sunday Globe all-stops-out thrilling.-The Washington Post Extraordinary storytelling at its very best.-The Detroit Free Press 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. 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 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. 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.
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