Η ΤΡΙΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ, ΤΟ ΑΣΤΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΒΟΡΡΑ
The Golden Gompass ( Northern Lights ) - from Philip Pullman's "Dark Materials" Trilogy (Book 1 of 3)
Η Λύρα, μια πανέξυπνη και θαρραλέα νεαρή κοπέλα, αναζητώντας το φίλο της που έχει εξαφανιστεί, μπλέκεται σε μια αλησμόνητη περιπέτεια που θα την οδηγήσει στον παγωμένο Βορρά. Εκεί την περιμένει κάτι παράξενο και συνάμα γοητευτικό. Η ιστορία εκτυλίσσεται σε ένα πρωτότυπο και ωστόσο γνώριμο σύμπαν με φόντο ένα μεγαλοπρεπές σκηνικό που γοητεύει με την ομορφιά του. Πλοκή και περιπέτεια, φαντασία και μυστήριο, ζωντανοί διάλογοι και έντονες περιγραφές συνθέτουν ένα συναρπαστικό μυθιστόρημα, το οποίο ο αναγνώστης διαβάζει μονορούφι περιμένοντας με ανυπομονησία τη συνέχεια. Πρόκειται για ένα βιβλίο-ανοιχτή πρόκληση για αναγνώστες όλων των ηλικιών!
In this book, the heroine, Lyra Belacqua, a young girl brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, learn of the existence of Dust, a strange elementary particle believed by the Magisterium to provide evidence for Original Sin. Dust appears less attracted to the innocence of children, and this gives rise to grisly experiments being carried out on kidnapped children and their daemons in the distant North by scientists of the Magisterium. Lyra and Pantalaimon journey to save their best friend Roger Parslow and other kidnapped children from this peril, with the aid of the an armoured bear, and stumble into several tricky situations along the way...
440 pages
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His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy, award-winning novels by Philip Pullman, comprises Northern Lights (1995 — released as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000). The books have also appeared as a single-volume omnibus in the United Kingdom and in North America, titled His Dark Materials. The trilogy follows the coming-of-age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. The story involves fantasy elements such as witches and armoured polar bears, and alludes to a broad range of ideas from fields such as physics, philosophy, theology and spirituality. The trilogy functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic, Paradise Lost; Pullman commends humanity for its attainment of wisdom and knowledge rather than condemning it (as in Milton's poem). Although Pullman's publishers have primarily marketed the series to young adults, Pullman also intended to speak to adults.