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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The set is about near-fine, with slight spotting/foxing to the text blocks, some dampstaining to the spine elements of The Golden Compass, and a remainder mark on the top text block of The Subtle Knife.

All three books are in FINE condition; Northern Lights has a very minor pushing to the top of the spine and modest toning; The Amber Spy Glass has a very small (1/4 ) impression on front board. It definitely has its moments, but any positive thoughts I had about the series evaporated in a puff of smoke after experiencing the saccharine, nauseating conclusion, which nearly had me blowing chunks on this book's pages. Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible. Innocence and Experience: The Subversion of the Child Hero Archetype in Philip Pullman's Speculative Soteriology" (PDF). He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass; a Booker Prize long-list nomination (The Amber Spyglass); Parents' Choice Gold Awards (The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work.K Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books, I started off reading the first book, expecting similar themes and tropes, but I don't think I could have been any more wrong. Volume 1 has a presentation inscription in blue ink on the title page, 'For Pat, with my best wishes - Philip Pullman'. Once Upon a Time in the North is a prequel to His Dark Materials and focuses on the 24-year-old Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby. In 2007, the judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's literature selected it as one of the ten most important children's novels of the previous 70 years. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature.

Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, faint soiling to rear board and fore-edges, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corners, else near fine(+) in near fine(+) DJ. Marisa Coulter is the beautiful and manipulative mother of Lyra, and the former lover of Lord Asriel. This is another paragraph Book Description: A book of stunning, moving, exhilarating, breathtaking scenes set during the events of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass and The Book of Dust: from Serafina Pekkala sitting quietly on her cloud pine broom, listening to Dust, ahead of the epic battle with the Angels, to a young Lyra speculating about her mother's identity.

Their "wheels" are large, round, hard seed-pods from trees; an axle-like claw at the end of each leg grips a seed-pod. Then, when I was looking in Paradise Lost for the title of the trilogy, I came across this marvellous phrase, 'His dark materials', which fits in so well with dark matter.