399 pages

English language

Published Sept. 11, 1999 by Scholastic.

ISBN:
978-0-439-99492-7
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OCLC Number:
42366794

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"This is the first in a trilogy in which a new universe has been created. A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London, where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air, and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for. 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 …

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Subjects

  • Kidnapping
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Missing persons
  • Orphans
  • Uncles

Places

  • Oxford (England)
  • Arctic regions
  • Arctic Regions
  • England
  • Oxford