His Dark Materials

By Philip Pullman

Subjects: Plays / Drama, Lyra Belacqua (Fictitious character), Good and evil, General, English drama, Fantasy fiction, English Fantasy fiction, Plays, Children's stories, English, Drama texts: from c 1900 -, Social Themes, Fantasy, Non-classifiable, Children's plays, Missing persons, Fantasy & Magic, Experiments, Kidnapping, Experimental Psychobiology, Magic, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Children's fiction, Drama, American, Drama / General, Juvenile fiction, Belacqua, lyra (fictitious character), fiction, Adaptations, Action & Adventure, Will Parry (Fictitious character)

Description: Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far north, where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought...