#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “BREATHTAKING.”—The Boston Globe • An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel • A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time • Winner of the Costa Award and the British Book Award • A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century • The Inspiration for the HBO Original Series His Dark MaterialsDON’T MISS THE EPIC FINALE TO LYRA’S STORY: THE ROSE FIELD, AVAILABLE NOW!The astonishing conclusion to the trilogy that began with the modern fantasy classic The Golden Compass.“War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here . . . assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence.”—The New York Times Book Review
Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriel’s 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—comes to depend on Lyra and Will. On the choices they make in love, and for love, forevermore.
Look for the modern fantasy classics of HIS DARK MATERIALS:The Golden Compass • The Subtle Knife • The Amber Spyglass
And Lyra’s adventures continue in THE BOOK OF DUST:La Belle Sauvage • The Secret Commonwealth • The Rose Field
On sale: May 27, 2003
Age: 10 and up
Grade: Grade 5 & Up
Page count: 560 Pages
ISBN: 9780440418566
Reading level: Lexile: 950L | Fountas/Pinnell: Z
Philip Pullman is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (
The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and
The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by
Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by
Entertainment Weekly. He is also the author of another trilogy set in the same world, The Book of Dust (
La Belle Sauvage, The Secret Commonwealth, and
The Rose Field) as well as numerous other much-loved novels, a collection of fairy tales, and a volume of essays and speeches on writing. He has won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread (now Costa) Award, Parents’ Choice Gold Awards, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Pullman was knighted for services to literature in the New Years Honours 2019. He lives in Oxford, England.
“Absorbing . . Like
Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling, [Pullman] invents a world filled with strange divinations and wordplays.”
–
Newsweek
“A LITERARY MASTERPIECE . . . [that] caps the most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings and puts Harry Potter to shame. . . . A page-turning story that builds to a powerful finish.”
–Oregonian
“IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN, SO FIRMLY AND RELENTLESSLY DOES PULLMAN DRAW YOU INTO HIS TALE . . . [A] gripping saga pitting the magnetic young Lyra Belacqua and her friend Will Parry against the forces of both Heaven and Hell.”
–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Breathtaking adventure . . . terrific story, eloquently told.”–
The Boston Sunday Globe
