Der Goldene Kompass

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Lyras Leben gibt schon genug Stoff für einen Roman her, bevor Sie ihren Onkel Lord Asriel bei einem Vortrag vor Kollegen seiner Fakultät am Jordan College belauscht. Das College ist berühmt für seine führende Stellung auf dem Gebiet der experimentellen Theologie und unterstützt Lord Asriels Forschung über die ketzerische Möglichkeit der Existenz von Welten, die so ganz anders sind als die Welt Lyras. In diesen Welten wird jeder schon mit einem Tier als vertrautem Gefährten geboren, Magie ohnegleichen ist am Werk, die Tartaren drohen Moskau zu stürmen und der Papst ist ein puritanischer Protestant.

Philip Pullmans lebendige und prägnante Geschichte spielt in einem England, das uns gleichermaßen bekannt und fremd vorkommt, und ist ein Muß für Fantasy-Liebhaber jeden Alters. Sie werden es später sicher auch gerne erneut zum Schmökern hervorholen. Von den subtilen Hinweisen auf den 1898er Tokajer über die seltsamen sprachlichen Verdrehungen bis hin zu Fabeltieren wie dem Panserbjorne -- die Welten werden hervorragend geschildert. Die entschlossene, kluge Lyra erinnert stark an die Dido Twite von Joan Aiken. Der Kompass selbst ist ein wirklich liebenswerter Bestandteil der Geschichte. Leser, die erst jetzt auf Der Goldene Kompaß gestoßen sind, haben Glück -- die Fortsetzung wird bald erscheinen.

Genres fantasyyoung adultfictionchildrensadventuremiddle gradeaudiobookscience fictionsteampunkscience fiction fantasy

410 pages, Paperback

First published July 1,1995

Series

His Dark Materials

Literary awards

guardian childrens fiction prize, audie award, lincoln award, carnegie medal,

Places

oxford oxfordshire england, svalbard spitsbergen,

This edition

Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2004 by Heyne
ISBN: 9783453137448
ASIN: 3453137442
Language: German

Characters More characters

Lyra Belacqua

A young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between angels and a pseudodeity called The Authority. Source: Wikipedia and Wikipedia.&hel...
Pantalaimon

Pantalaimon is Lyras dæmon. We first meet him in the form of a moth, camouflaging with the dark wooden atmosphere of Jordan College. He takes many forms throughout the trilogy, but is most often seen as an ermine, a wildcat or a mouse. He even takes...
Lord Asriel

A member of the aristocracy in a universe parallel to our own. Lord Asriel is a military leader and a fellow of Jordan College, Oxford, as well as the guardian of Lyra Belacqua.more...
Iorek Byrnison

Iorek Byrnison is a male armoured bear (panserbjørn in Norwegian). Like all Panserbjørn, Iorek follows a very strict code of conduct, and will not, in any situation, betray a promise he has made. He possesses incredible strength, and like many of his kind...
Iofur Raknison

A tyrant king of the Panserbjørnes at Svalbard. Raknisons dream is to be like a human, that is having his own dæmon, owing to which he was easily tricked by Lyra into a combat against Iorek Byrnison, in which Raknison loses, and Byrnison succeeds Ra...
Marisa Coulter

A woman from a universe parallel to our own. Mrs Coulter is a cunning politician who is highly placed and trusted in the Magisteriums hierarchy.more...

About the author

philip pullman

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature.
Northern Lights, the first volume in His Dark Materials, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the Carnegie's 70th anniversary, it was named in the top ten by a panel tasked with compiling a shortlist for a public vote for an all-time favourite. It won that public vote and was named all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" in June 2007. It was filmed under the book's US title, The Golden Compass. In 2003, His Dark Materials trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public.