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A nice copy of the first edition, first printing, first book in the Dark Triology. Text is very tight and clean, appears barely read. Lettering is bright and unflaked. In a Fine bright dust jacket. No Previous Owner's Name. No remainder mark or spray. Not Price Clipped. Not a Book Club Edition. This is a nice copy at a very good price. Compare and see. Accurate Descriptions/Quality Books/Unmatched Prices. Seller Inventory # 3778
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Golden Compass
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Inc, New York
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
About this title
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.
In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber
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