His Dark Materials: Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

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Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. Northern Lights" (published in USA as "The Golden Compass") was named as one of the Top Ten Carnegie medal winners by the selection panel for the Library Association's 2007 70th Anniversary of the award, and chosen from their shortlist as the winner of the public vote, so named "Carnegie of Carnegies".

The Church (governed by the "Magisterium", the same name as the authority of the Catholic Church) exerts a strong control over society and has some of the appearance and organisation of the Catholic Church, but one in which the centre of power had been moved from Rome to Geneva, moved there by Pullman's fictional "Pope John Calvin" ( Geneva was the home of the historical John Calvin). Que decir de la historia, si ya los has leido son unas de las piezas literarias modernas más entretenidas e interesantes, están erroneamente catalogados como libros infantiles cuando los temas que tratan son muy pesados y hasta controversiales en zonas conservadoras. All three volumes are signed by the author in blue ink on the title page (without further inscription). The first; NORTHERN LIGHTS; is now the stunning motion picture THE GOLDEN COMPASS; made by New Line Cinema and Scholastic Media. Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College; Oxford.

The first fully illustrated edition of Pullman's acclaimed trilogy comprising 'Northern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass'.

Using the knife's portal-creating powers, Will and Lyra are able to retrieve her alethiometer from Latrom's mansion in Will's world.Unusually, Everyman have not put a picture of Pullman on the front cover of the book but chosen a theme from the books which is both charming and appropriate. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. Includes the 'Peril of the Pole' game in rear cover pocket:- Synopsis: Another mesmerising episode from the universe of 'His Dark Materials' including the very first meeting of those two legends and friends, Lee Scoresby, the Texan balloonist, and Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear.

All the books are TRUE FIRST EDITIONS with the ORIGINAL First Issue dustjackets with NO chips or tears.Will and Lyra, the two children at the heart of the books, have become separated amidst great dangers. has similarities to the Christianity of 'our own universe', but also crucial differences…[it] is based not in the Catholic centre of Rome, but in Geneva, Switzerland, where the centre of religious power, narrates Pullman, moved in the Middle Ages under the aegis of John Calvin".