His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass/ The Subtle Knife/ The Amber Spyglass

Informationen zum Autor PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy ( The Golden Compass!   The Subtle Knife! The Amber Spyglass )! which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by  Newsweek  and one of the all-time greatest novels by  Entertainment Weekly . He has also won many distinguished prizes! including the Carnegie Medal for  The Golden Compass  (and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for  The Amber Spyglass ; a Booker Prize long-list nomination ( The Amber Spyglass ); Parents' Choice Gold Awards ( The Subtle Knife  and  The Amber Spyglass ); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award! in honor of his body of work. In 2004! he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.   It has recently been announced that  The Book of Dust ! the much anticipated new book from Mr. Pullman! also set in the world of His Dark Materials! will be published as a major work in three parts! with the first part to arrive in October 2017.     Philip Pullman is the author of many other much-lauded novels. Other volumes related to His Dark Materials:  Lyra’s Oxford! Once Upon a Time in the North ! and  The Collectors . 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 .   Philip Pullman lives in Oxford! England. To learn more! please visit philip-pullman.com and hisdarkmaterials.com. Or follow him on Twitter at @PhilipPullman. Preface I began to write this novel with little sense of the plot, even less notion of the theme, and only the vaguest idea of the characters. I'm convinced that that's the way to do it. I tried to work out the plan of a novel once, when I was young, ahead of writing it. It was an excellent plan. It took me months and covered page after page, and in the end I was so fed up with the damn thing I threw it away and started a quite different novel with no preparation at all, which came out much better. I suppose these things are partly temperamental; I know that some excellent writers make a great thing of planning every book before they write it; but it doesn't work for me. One thing such a technique prevents is what I think every long book must have if I'm not to go mad writing it, and that's the element of surprise. I had no idea what Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear, would say when Lyra first came face to face with him. His vulnerability to strong drink was a huge surprise. I knew there was going to be a boy called Will, but his reason for running away and thus meeting Lyra was a complete mystery to me until it happened. As for Lee Scoresby, I was as ignorant of his existence as the gyptians themselves the sentence before he turned up. These surprises are pleasant and exciting; they feel like a kind of reward. If I knew they were coming I wouldn't enjoy them at all. In the first sentence above, I mentioned something I called the theme. By that I mean what the book is about , in some fundamental sense. I've heard that some writers decide on a theme first, and then make up some characters and a plot to exemplify it. They seem to get on all right, but again, it wouldn't work for me. A book, especially a long book like His Dark Materials , has to have some sort of theme, or else you'll be working for a long time (this story took me seven years) in a moral vacuum. But that doesn't mean you have to decide what the theme is. If you're working as seriously as you know how to, for a matter of years, ...

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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 Year 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Philip Pullman
• Con la collaborazione di: Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Introduzione), Philip Pullman (Prefazione)
• Editore: Random House USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 8 a 12 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 06.12.2011
• EAN: 9780307957832
• ISBN: 978-0-307-95783-2
• Serie: Everyman's Library Contemporar
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy