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The Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman
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The Golden Compass - Thryft
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Boundless adventure through parallel universes and daemons.

This is a thrilling and captivating book that transports you to a world full of adventure. With parallel universes and the unique concept of daemons, the story unfolds with mystery and excitement. As you join Lyra on her journey to save her kidnapped friends, you'll be engrossed in the suspense and amazed by the imaginative world-building. The Golden Compass is a must-read for anyone seeking a thrilling and fantastical adventure.

  • Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1996)
  • Audie Award for Children's Titles (2000)
  • Lincoln Award Nominee (2005)
  • Carnegie Medal (1995)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman
Save 34%
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ISBN: 9780345413352
Authors: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Del Rey
Date of Publication: 1997-03-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
Related Topics: Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.02
(rated by 1500965 readers)

Description

In 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.
 

Boundless adventure through parallel universes and daemons.

This is a thrilling and captivating book that transports you to a world full of adventure. With parallel universes and the unique concept of daemons, the story unfolds with mystery and excitement. As you join Lyra on her journey to save her kidnapped friends, you'll be engrossed in the suspense and amazed by the imaginative world-building. The Golden Compass is a must-read for anyone seeking a thrilling and fantastical adventure.

  • Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1996)
  • Audie Award for Children's Titles (2000)
  • Lincoln Award Nominee (2005)
  • Carnegie Medal (1995)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.