The Golden Compass

　　她的使命，從說謊與背叛開始……

　　萊拉自幼父母雙亡，在牛津的約旦學院中由諸位學者撫養教育，但她沒有成為淑女，反而個性野蠻，說謊是家常便飯，常常蹺課到學院的屋頂或地窖探險，或者率領牛津街坊的玩伴與外來的吉普賽孩子打泥巴仗，儼然是個孩子王。這般無憂無慮的生活，在她偷偷潛入院長貴賓室後宣告終止──躲在衣櫥裡的她，目睹了一樁謀殺和一項駭人的禁忌知識……

　　神祕物質「塵」究竟有什麼作用？政治與宗教最高機構「教誨權威」為什麼禁止「塵」的研究？萊拉的伯父，野心勃勃、作風強硬的艾塞列公爵，為何不惜與教誨權威唱反調？聰明美麗、社交手腕高明的考爾特夫人，會如何改變萊拉的生活？令人髮指的吞人獸誘拐兒童事件，將揭開什麼陰謀？一只金製的真理探測儀，會為萊拉開啟什麼樣的未來？

　　在人與守護精靈、女巫、熊族共存的世界裡，流傳一項與萊拉有關的預言；但她必須對此毫不知情，只為自己的信念而踏上追尋北地之光的旅程……

　　《黃金羅盤》為「黑暗元素三部曲」首部曲。全書的創作靈感來自17世紀英國詩人彌爾頓的經典詩作《失樂園》，藉由兒童的眼光探討人類文明最具爭議的主題之一：宗教信仰。格局宏大，層次繁複，童心與陰謀交織對映，熱鬧趣味中流露詭譎陰暗面，無疑是當代奇幻經典。

The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an ＂All-Time Greatest Novel＂ and Newsweek hailed as a ＂Top 100 Book of All Time.＂ Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn’t know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman’s award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller
Published in 40 Countries

＂Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years.＂ --The Washington Post

＂Very grand indeed.＂--The New York Times

＂Pullman is quite possibly a genius.＂ --Newsweek

Don’t miss Philip Pullman’s epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials!
** THE BOOK OF DUST **
La Belle Sauvage
The Secret Commonwealth

PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, which has been named one of the top 100 books of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. Pullman was knighted for his services to literature in the 2019 New Years Honours.

The Book of Dust, Pullman’s eagerly anticipated return to the world of His Dark Materials, will also be a book in three parts. It began with La Belle Sauvage and continues with The Secret Commonwealth.

Philip Pullman is the author of many other beloved novels. For younger readers: I Was a Rat!, Count Karlstein, Two Crafty Criminals!, Spring-Heeled Jack, and The Scarecrow and His Servant. For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet (The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well, and The Tin Princess), The White Mercedes, and The Broken Bridge. He has written a magnificent collection, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, and his essays and lectures on writing and storytelling have been gathered in a volume called Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling.

Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England.