His Dark Materials Trilogy

philip pullman

A luxury edition of all three books in the His Dark Materials trilogy in one volume. Contains 'Northern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass'.

Genres fantasyfictionyoung adultchildrensscience fiction fantasyscience fictionclassicsadventuresteampunkmiddle grade

1016 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1,2000

Series

His Dark Materials

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This edition

Format: 1016 pages, Hardcover
Published: November 1, 2002 by Hippo/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439994347
ASIN: 0439994349
Language: English

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...
Will Parry

A 12-year-old boy who befriends Lyra Belacqua when he meets her in the world of Cittàgazze and teams up with her in order to uncover the mysteries of Dust. Source: Wikipediamore...
Mary Malone

Dr. Mary Malone is a physicist from Wills world (which is supposed to be the world in which the reader and author live), who is investigating dark matter, known also as Dust, and is told she must play the part of the Serpent for the second Adam and ...
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...

About the author

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.