His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far north, where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought...
What you might want to know about His Dark Materials
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Lyra, an orphan running wild at Oxford, follows missing children north into a kingdom of armored bears and witches. Will, a London boy with a knife that cuts between worlds, walks into hers. The trilogy ranges out from there.
Philip Pullman's original His Dark Materials trilogy has three books: The Golden Compass (Northern Lights in the UK), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. The companion Book of Dust trilogy expands the world; two volumes are published with a third in progress.
Yes. BBC and HBO produced three seasons of His Dark Materials between 2019 and 2022, adapting the original trilogy. The show is widely considered more faithful than the 2007 film The Golden Compass.
His Dark Materials was written by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic.
His Dark Materials is 410 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, His Dark Materials takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
His Dark Materials is a standalone novel by Philip Pullman, not part of a series.
His Dark Materials is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
