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The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
1998 · Alfred A. Knopf · 399 pages
Lyra Belacqua (Fictitious character)Missing personsKidnappingAdaptationsComic books, strips
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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim out…
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