Read by the author and a full cast10 hours, 49 minutes9 CDsWhen Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon decide to spy on a presentation her uncle, the commanding Lord Asriel, is making to the elders of Jordan College they have no idea that they will become witnesses to an attempted murder - and even less that they are taking the first steps in a journey that will lead them into danger and adventure unlike anything Lyra's unfettered imagination has conjured up.Though she has been reised at the college in an atmosphere of benign neglect that has allowed her to become a half-wild child of the streets, Lyra soon finds herself apprenticed to the elegant Mrs. Coulter - and in possession of a strange device called the alethiometer, a "golden compass" that reads not true worth, but truth itself.But truth is a precious commodity, and before long Lyra and Pan are running for their lives, the object of an obsessive hunt by mysterious forces who have been stealing children for dark purposes that no one understands. Lyra will need all her street-learned wiles if she and Pan are to survive.An international sensation from the moment it was published, The Golden Compass comes to spectacular new life in this unabridged recording, narrated by Philip Pullman himself, with the support of some of the finest actors of the London stage.
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The Subtle Knife
By Pullman, Philip
The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. --The Oregonian Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing fatherbut what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart. A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel The story gallops with ferocious momentum. --The New York Times Book Review Pullmans imagination soars. . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you wont want to miss. --The Boston Globe Destined to become a classic. --Detroit Free Press The Subtle Knife is as absorbing and irresistible as The Golden Compass--and even more so, as powerful forces are set in motion. A brilliantly conceived work. --Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, and Newbery Medalist for The High King
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The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. --The Oregonian Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing fatherbut what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart. A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel The story gallops with ferocious momentum. --The New York Times Book Review Pullmans imagination soars. . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you wont want to miss. --The Boston Globe Destined to become a classic. --Detroit Free Press The Subtle Knife is as absorbing and irresistible as The Golden Compass--and even more so, as powerful forces are set in motion. A brilliantly conceived work. --Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, and Newbery Medalist for The High King
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The Amber Spyglass
By Pullman, Philip
The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. The Oregonian Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriels audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play--and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed. Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all. They must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone and from which there is no escape. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living--and the dead--to depend on Lyra and Will. A New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest NovelWinner of the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Award.Winner of the British Book Award (Children's) "Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement." --The Cincinnati Enquirer "Breathtaking adventure . . . a terrific story, eloquently told." --The Boston Globe "War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here . . . shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. I am completely enchanted." --The New York Times Book Review "Masterful. . . . This title confirms Pullman's inclusion in the company of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien." --Smithsonian MagazineFrom the Hardcover edition.
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The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. The Oregonian Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriels audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play--and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed. Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all. They must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone and from which there is no escape. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living--and the dead--to depend on Lyra and Will. A New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest NovelWinner of the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Award.Winner of the British Book Award (Children's) "Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement." --The Cincinnati Enquirer "Breathtaking adventure . . . a terrific story, eloquently told." --The Boston Globe "War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here . . . shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. I am completely enchanted." --The New York Times Book Review "Masterful. . . . This title confirms Pullman's inclusion in the company of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien." --Smithsonian MagazineFrom the Hardcover edition.
The Golden Compass
By Pullman, Philip
Read by the author and a full cast10 hours, 49 minutes9 CDsWhen Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon decide to spy on a presentation her uncle, the commanding Lord Asriel, is making to the elders of Jordan College they have no idea that they will become witnesses to an attempted murder - and even less that they are taking the first steps in a journey that will lead them into danger and adventure unlike anything Lyra's unfettered imagination has conjured up.Though she has been reised at the college in an atmosphere of benign neglect that has allowed her to become a half-wild child of the streets, Lyra soon finds herself apprenticed to the elegant Mrs. Coulter - and in possession of a strange device called the alethiometer, a "golden compass" that reads not true worth, but truth itself.But truth is a precious commodity, and before long Lyra and Pan are running for their lives, the object of an obsessive hunt by mysterious forces who have been stealing children for dark purposes that no one understands. Lyra will need all her street-learned wiles if she and Pan are to survive.An international sensation from the moment it was published, The Golden Compass comes to spectacular new life in this unabridged recording, narrated by Philip Pullman himself, with the support of some of the finest actors of the London stage.
The Subtle Knife
By Pullman, Philip
The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. --The Oregonian Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing fatherbut what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart. A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel The story gallops with ferocious momentum. --The New York Times Book Review Pullmans imagination soars. . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you wont want to miss. --The Boston Globe Destined to become a classic. --Detroit Free Press The Subtle Knife is as absorbing and irresistible as The Golden Compass--and even more so, as powerful forces are set in motion. A brilliantly conceived work. --Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, and Newbery Medalist for The High King Show more Show less #outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. --The Oregonian Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing fatherbut what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart. A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel The story gallops with ferocious momentum. --The New York Times Book Review Pullmans imagination soars. . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you wont want to miss. --The Boston Globe Destined to become a classic. --Detroit Free Press The Subtle Knife is as absorbing and irresistible as The Golden Compass--and even more so, as powerful forces are set in motion. A brilliantly conceived work. --Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, and Newbery Medalist for The High King
The Amber Spyglass
By Pullman, Philip
The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. The Oregonian Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriels audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play--and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed. Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all. They must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone and from which there is no escape. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living--and the dead--to depend on Lyra and Will. A New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest NovelWinner of the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Award.Winner of the British Book Award (Children's) "Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement." --The Cincinnati Enquirer "Breathtaking adventure . . . a terrific story, eloquently told." --The Boston Globe "War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here . . . shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. I am completely enchanted." --The New York Times Book Review "Masterful. . . . This title confirms Pullman's inclusion in the company of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien." --Smithsonian MagazineFrom the Hardcover edition. Show more Show less #outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. The Oregonian Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriels audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play--and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed. Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all. They must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone and from which there is no escape. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living--and the dead--to depend on Lyra and Will. A New York Times BestsellerA Newsweek Top 100 Book of All TimeAn Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest NovelWinner of the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Award.Winner of the British Book Award (Children's) "Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement." --The Cincinnati Enquirer "Breathtaking adventure . . . a terrific story, eloquently told." --The Boston Globe "War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here . . . shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. I am completely enchanted." --The New York Times Book Review "Masterful. . . . This title confirms Pullman's inclusion in the company of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien." --Smithsonian MagazineFrom the Hardcover edition.