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The Golden Compass Deluxe Edition

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The Golden Compass Deluxe Edition

by Philip Pullman

Random House Children's Books | October 24, 2006 | Hardcover

Published in 40 countries, Philip Pullman''s His Dark Materials trilogy--The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass--has graced the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. In 1996, The Golden Compass changed the face of fantasy publishing, and 2006 marks its 10 Year Anniversary--and an opportunity to celebrate with a deluxe hardcover. Pullman created new material just for this edition (archival documents, scientific notes and "found" letters of Lord Asriel) which has been illustrated and handlettered by renowned British artist Ian Beck and will be included in the back matter. The deluxe edition also features Pullman''s own chapter opening spot art. A quality collectible--with the enticement of never-before-seen new material--for Pullman fans.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Fantasy for Youth and Adults!

    Monica

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    11 months ago

    If it weren't for my book club, "The Golden Compass" is probably a book I would never have decided to read. I picked up a copy of the book from the library, only to have my 22 yr old daughter start it and tell me I was going to have to get another copy if I wanted to have it read in time for my next book club meeting. So I did...and I started reading with mixed feelings, wondering how a fantasy novel written for youth was going to capture my attention. Twenty pages in and I was hooked.

    I thought the language might be intended for younger readers, but it's really not...this book is well written and challenges you to think. With all the religious controversy that I heard about this book I was prepared for that aspect, but instead found myself not necessarily paying any attention to anything but the story that the author, Philip Pullman, is telling.

    To end this review: I loved "The Golden Compass"...I fell in love with the Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon...with the armoured bear, Iofur Raknison...with Farder Coram. I have the second and third book in the trilogy waiting for me...after the quick mystery that I decided to fit in first.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Eat your heart out CS Lewis!

    Luke Strople

    13 months ago

    Far from your typical wish-fulfillment type adventure story for children, in which an ordinary kid discovers he or she has been endowed with a magical weapon or power or whatnot, and sets out to become a hero - His Dark Materials is a series for youngsters with some real philosophical and existential meat to it. It is no mere magic sword or treasure map discovered by Lyra our wiley protagonist, nor the magical ability to fly or turn invisible. What she learns instead, is that her enigmatic Uncle is conspiring to wage war against God. What she finds to get her started on her journey - an instrument called an alethiometer which allows her to decipher the truth in all matters of cosmology and discourse.
    This is a story at it's heart about truth and free will -- the value of real human volition.

    This is no Percy Jackson and certainly no Narnia -- Hallelujah, Amen.

    Add to this impressive pseudo-Miltonian plot, this not-so morally cut and dried counter-thesis to CS Lewis' didactic Narnia series - a highly inventive Victorian steampunk fantasy world complete with airships, bow-wielding flying witches and a society of armour-sporting polar bears warring for dominance in the North Pole, and you've got yourself a pretty badass fantasy trilogy that children and adults seeking a more humanistic approach to fantasy will enjoy sinking their teeth into.

    Okay fine, most kids aren't going to read this for the treatise on doing away with church made fabrications about the afterlife in order to focus on bettering the world at our finger tips in the present -- the life we have in front of us right now, but I think they'll sure as hell enjoy the armoured Polar Bears. I most certainly did, and then some.

    I found the Golden Compass to be the most enjoyable installation, mostly for the physical distance covered in the actual journey and the compelling darkness of the ending. The Trilogy ends up playing out as an endorsement of free will over pious servitude. The fall of Adam and Eve is regarded by Pullman, as a positive event in mythology rather than the troublesome origin of all ill-fortune as is viewed by tradition. This is the kind of story most kids with devout church going parents will want to smuggle in from the library and read with a flashnight beneath the sheets at night.

    And don't watch the movie.
    It's crap.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Great!

    Hawk

    2 years ago

    The book was great! A bit too religious. First book.

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    Linda D.

    Rating: 5/5

    Charmed

    Linda D.

    12 years ago

    This book is made to be swallowed up by people of all ages. Read originally as a required text for a Children's Literature class, I certainly didn't think I would become so mesmerized by it. I quickly found myself wanting to read it constantly. It also made a three hour flight seem like I was barely in the air before I was arriving at my destination. I would suggest this book to people of all ages who like to keep guessing all the way to the end.

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From the Publisher

Published in 40 countries, Philip Pullman''s His Dark Materials trilogy--The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass--has graced the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. In 1996, The Golden Compass changed the face of fantasy publishing, and 2006 marks its 10 Year Anniversary--and an opportunity to celebrate with a deluxe hardcover. Pullman created new material just for this edition (archival documents, scientific notes and "found" letters of Lord Asriel) which has been illustrated and handlettered by renowned British artist Ian Beck and will be included in the back matter. The deluxe edition also features Pullman''s own chapter opening spot art. A quality collectible--with the enticement of never-before-seen new material--for Pullman fans.

From the Jacket

Lyra Belaqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar Pantalaimon always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle--a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. And as she hurtles toward danger in the cold, far North, young Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: She alone is destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle.

About the Author

Philip Pullman has 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) Book of the Year 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. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Philip Pullman is the author of many books for young readers, including two volumes related to the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lyra''s Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North. He lives in Oxford, England. To learn more, please visit www.philip-pullman.com and www.hisdarkmaterials.com.

Hardcover

432 Pages, 6.39 x 9.27 x 1.32 in

October 24, 2006

Random House Children's Books

English


0375838309
9780375838309

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From the Critics

Review, USA Today (circ: 2, 192,098), November 1, 2007:
"The 1996 novel, published for children but widely praised by grown-ups, is set in a British world where everyone has a personal ''daemon,'' the manifestation of his or her soul in animal form ... Pullman ... has seen an early cut of the film without its computer-generated effects and calls it ''rich, strange and wonderful.''"

Review, Entertainment Weekly (circ: 1, 830, 769), November 9, 2007:
"The polar bear warriors in THE GOLDEN COMPASS ... are just part of the vast fantastical metaverse explored by young Lyra Belacqua in a $150 million adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman''s His Dark Materialstrilogy."
-Holiday Movie Preview

"Pullman, meanwhile, is handling the controversy gracefully...the British author wagered that the hullabaloo ''will make more people see the film.''"
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