The Golden Compass (Northern Lights)

418 Pages·2012·1.41 MB·English

by  Pullman Philip

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THE GOLDEN
COMPASS
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Also by Philip Pullman v
The Ruby in the Smoke
Shadow in the North
The Tiger in the Well
Spring-Heeled Jack
The Broken Bridge
The White Mercedes
The Tin Princess
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His Dark Materials
Book One
THE GOLDEN
COMPASS
Philip Pullman
Alfred A. KNoPF New York
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
Copyright © 1995 by Philip Pullman
Cover art copyright © 1996 by Eric Rohmann
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simulta-
neously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by
Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by
Scholastic Children’s Books in 1995 under the title
His Dark Materials1: Northern Lights.
http://www.randomhouse.com/teens
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pullman, Philip.
[Northern lights] The golden compass / by Philip Pullman
p. cm.
— (His dark materials) Originally published as: Northern lights.
Summary: Accompanied by her dæmon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best
friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome
experiments in the Far North.
[1. Missing persons—Experiments—Fiction. 2. Kidnapping—Fiction.
3. Arctic regions—Fiction. 4. Fantasy.] I. Title.
II. Series: Pullman, Philip. His dark materials.
PZ7.P968Go 1996
[Fic]—dc20 95-33397
eISBN 0-440-41860-7
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Into this wild abyss,
The womb of nature and perhaps her grave,
Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixed
Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless the almighty maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more worlds,
Into this wild abyss the wary fiend
Stood on the brink of hell and looked a while,
Pondering his voyage...
—John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II