Product Description

The only hardcover omnibus of the best-selling and award-winning fantasy trilogy?? in a Contemporary Classics edition.
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Philip Pullman's trilogy is a masterpiece that transcends genre and appeals to readers of all ages. His heroine?? Lyra?? is an orphan living in a parallel universe in which science?? theology?? and magic are entwined. The epic story that takes us through the three novels is not only a spellbinding adventure featuring armored polar bears?? magical devices?? witches?? and daemons?? it is also an audacious and profound reimagining of Milton's Paradise Lost that has already inspired a number of serious books of literary criticism. Like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis before him?? Pullman has invented a richly detailed and marvelously imagined world?? complex and thought-provoking enough to enthrall adults as well as younger readers. An utterly entrancing blend of metaphysical speculation and bravura storytelling?? His Dark M