His Dark Materials: Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature. The book itself is magnificent - beautiful to look at, pleasingly heavy and incredibly high quality. She prides herself on her capacity for mischief, especially her ability to lie, earning her the epithet "Silvertongue" from Iorek Byrnison.

The only other hardback edition of the three books has been the three volumes which were issued by the Folio Society which which were rather mediocre in their illustrations (in the humble opinion of the reviewer here) and were the slightly censored American editions which removed some of the mildly racy passages which talked about the heroine, Lyra's ripening and blossoming sexuality. Will ignores the angels; with the help of a local girl named Ama, the Bear King Iorek Byrnison, and Lord Asriel's Gallivespian spies, the Chevalier Tialys and the Lady Salmakia, he rescues Lyra from the cave where her mother has hidden her from the Magisterium, which has become determined to kill her before she yields to temptation and sin like the original Eve. Mulefa are four-legged wheeled animals; they have one leg in front, one in back, and one on each side. In Northern Lights, the story takes place in a world with some similarities to our own: dress-style resembles that of the UK's Edwardian era; the technology does not include cars or fixed-wing aircraft, but zeppelins feature as a mode of transport.

Some threads are not neatly tied up, some disappear for a while and we have only a line or two to say what happened, and there are some unanswered questions. In 2007 the judges for CILIP Carnegie Medal selected the novel as one of the 10 most important children's novels in the last 70 years.

The Amber Spyglass' in publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board.

The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight.

After winning his hot-air balloon, Scoresby heads to the North, landing on the Arctic island Novy Odense, where he is pulled into a conflict between the oil tycoon Larsen Manganese, the corrupt mayoral candidate Ivan Poliakov, and his longtime enemy from the Dakota Country, Pierre McConville. Lyra and Will both seem to be young and at the same time quite advanced for children their age, but the last book within the trilogy seems more suited to older teenagers. In The Subtle Knife, the story moves between our own world, the world of the first novel, and a third world containing the city of Cittàgazze.But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. This is another paragraph Book Description: A book of stunning, moving, exhilarating, breathtaking scenes set during the events of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass and The Book of Dust: from Serafina Pekkala sitting quietly on her cloud pine broom, listening to Dust, ahead of the epic battle with the Angels, to a young Lyra speculating about her mother's identity. Their "wheels" are large, round, hard seed-pods from trees; an axle-like claw at the end of each leg grips a seed-pod. First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 10 full-page coloured illustrations and smaller decorations in each volume; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.