His Dark Materials Bind-Up
Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning bind-up edition with a new cover by acclaimed illustrator Chris Wormell. Since the first volume was published in 1995, and has 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. The Book of Dust, the long-awaited follow-up, was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2018. Today, the story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike.
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(30/07/22) ‘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
His Dark Materials is so enormously ambitious that even in some instances where Philip Pullman doesn't quite stick the landing, you have to give him credit for the attempt alone. Daemons are so deceptively simple but may be one of my favourite concepts in a novel ever. A retelling of The Fall/Paradise Lost weaving together threads of parallel universes, theology, philosophy and good old fashioned adventure. Magnificent
