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The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time", continues the epic adventure, catapulting listeners between worlds and toward a devastating discovery.

Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent new novel, set ten years before Northern Lights and featuring his much-loved character, Lyra Belacqua.

The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last!Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part.The Book of Dust will be a work in three parts, like His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).The title and cover of this first story will remain under wraps until a later date, but it can be revealed that the book is set ten years before The Golden Compass and centers on the much-loved character Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon.Philip Pullman offers these tantalizing details: "I've always wanted to tell the story of how Lyra came to be living at Jordan College, and in thinking about it, I discovered a long story that began when she was a baby and will end when she's grown up. This volume and the next will cover two parts of Lyra's life: starting at the beginning of her story and returning to her twenty years later. As for the third and final part, my lips are sealed."So, second: is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? It's neither. In fact, The Book of Dust is . . . an equel. It doesn't stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. It's a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognize, and characters they've met before. Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have glimpsed in an earlier part of Lyra's story, if we were paying attention) who, with Lyra, is caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes him into a new world."Third: why return to Lyra's world? Dust. Questions about that mysterious and troubling substance were already causing strife ten years before His Dark Materials, and at the center of The Book of Dust is the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organization, which wants to stifle speculation and inquiry, and those who believe thought and speech should be free. The idea of Dust suffused His Dark Materials. Little by little through that story the idea of what Dust was became clearer and clearer, but I always wanted to return to it and discover more."The books of the His Dark Materials trilogy were showered with praise, and the Cincinnati Enquirer proclaimed, "Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century." With The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman embarks on an equally grand adventure, sure to be hailed as the first great fantasy masterpiece of the twenty-first century.

The Book of Dust will be a work in three parts, like His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).The title and cover of this first story will remain under wraps until a later date, but it can be revealed that the book is set ten years before The Golden Compass and centers on the much-loved character Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon.Philip Pullman offers these tantalizing details: "I've always wanted to tell the story of how Lyra came to be living at Jordan College, and in thinking about it, I discovered a long story that began when she was a baby and will end when she's grown up. This volume and the next will cover two parts of Lyra's life: starting at the beginning of her story and returning to her twenty years later. As for the third and final part, my lips are sealed."So, second: is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? It's neither. In fact, The Book of Dust is . . . an 'equel.' It doesn't stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. It's a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognize, and characters they've met before. Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have glimpsed in an earlier part of Lyra's story, if we were paying attention) who, with Lyra, is caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes him into a new world.

In this second installment of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and her friend Will travel to a strange, tropical otherworld known as Cittagazze, a place devoid of adults, where children run wild. As Lyra and Will's lives become more and more entwined, Lyra's alethiometer commands her to find Will's father, and the search brings her and Will closer to the Subtle Knife, a magical tool that cuts windows between worlds. Inspired by John Milton's PARADISE LOST, this trilogy begins with THE GOLDEN COMPASS and concludes with THE AMBER SPYGLASS.

Le jeune Will, à la recherche de son père disparu depuis de longues années, est persuadé d'avoir tué un homme. Dans sa fuite, il franchit une brèche presque invisible qui lui permet de passer dans un monde parallèle. Là, à Cittàgazze, la ville au-delà de l'Aurore, il rencontre Lyra, l'héroïne des Royaumes du Nord. Elle aussi cherche à rejoindre son père, elle aussi est investie d'une mission dont elle ne connaît pas encore toute l'importance. Ensemble, les deux enfants devront lutter contre les forces obscures du mal et, pour accomplir leur quête, pénétrer dans la mystérieuse Tour des Anges...

Lyra, l'héroïne des Royaumes du Nord et de La Tour des Anges, est retenue prisonnière par sa mère, l'ambitieuse et cruelle Mme Coulter qui, pour mieux s'assurer de sa docilité, l'a plongée dans un sommeil artificiel. Will, le compagnon de Lyra, armé du poignard subtil, s'est lancé à sa recherche, escorté de deux anges, Balthamos et Baruch. Avec leur aide, il parviendra à délivrer son amie. Mais, à son réveil, Lyra lui annonce qu'une mission encore plus périlleuse, presque désespérée, les attend : ils doivent descendre dans le monde des morts... Conteur magistral, Philip Pullman conclut sa trilogie par une succession d'aventures, de batailles et d'explorations menées à un rythme effréné. Au-delà du destin de ses deux héros, il esquisse aussi un éblouissant raccourci de l'aventure humaine.

Tras las inolvidables páginas de Luces del Norte, La Daga y El Catalejo Lacado, Philip Pullman regresa con otro prodigioso episodio protagonizado por Lyra Belacqua: un nuevo relato en el que la carismática protagonista de La Materia Oscura deberá recorrer su peculiar Oxford para ayudar a la famosa bruja Yelena Pazhets. Una fascinantes narración en una edición exquisita, que incluye grabados en blanco y negro en las páginas interiores, reproducciones de documentos reales extraídos de su biblioteca particular, e incluso un mapa desplegable del Oxford de Lyra, con anotaciones para seguir su recorrido por la ciudad.

Ce n'était pas une vie ordinaire pour une jeune fille de onze ans : Lyra vivait, en compagnie de son dæmon Pantalaimon, parmi les Érudits du Jordan College, passant ses journées à courir dans les rues d'Oxford à la recherche éperdue d'aventures. Mais sa vie bascule le jour où elle entend parler d'une extraordinaire particule. D'une taille microscopique, la Poussière - que l'on trouve uniquement dans les vastes étendues glacées des Royaumes du Nord - est censée posséder le pouvoir de briser les frontières entre les mondes, un pouvoir qui suscite effroi et convoitises... Jetée au cœur d'un terrible conflit, Lyra sera forcée d'accorder sa confiance aux gitans et à de terribles ours en armure. Et, lors de son périlleux voyage vers le Nord, elle devra découvrir pourquoi son propre destin semble étroitement lié à cette bataille sans merci où s'opposent des forces que nul ne l'avait préparée à affronter.

Jim Taylor, le fidèle compagnon de Sally Lockhart, est depuis longtemps à la recherche de la jeune Adélaïde, une orpheline disparue il y a des années. Quelle surprise de la découvrir sous les traits d'une jolie jeune femme au bras du prince héritier du trône de Razkavie, petit royaume indépendant au cœur de l'Europe. Mais des forces obscures sont à l'œuvre, le royaume est en danger. N'écoutant que son cœur, Jim quitte Londres pour se porter au secours de ses amis... Quatrième et dernier volume de la série Sally Lockhart, l'auteur de la célèbre trilogie À la croisée des mondes nous offre une aventure haletante dans l'Europe de la fin du XIXe siècle.