North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal-including her friend Roger. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. 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.

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA! Paperback movie tie-in edition of 1995 book, in Like New condition. His cruelty comes to the forefront when he kills Roger in pursuit of this research.The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1, a novel by Philip Pullman (Yearling, 2001). He does, however, explain his research to her: there are parallel universes accessible through the Aurora and one of them contains the source of Dust, which he wants to destroy. He sees no issue with never telling Lyra that he's her father and dismisses her anger and sense of betrayal. When Lyra finally reaches Lord Asriel, she discovers just how cruel and unfeeling he is. This interpretation, however, turns out to be incorrect.

When she learns that Lord Asriel is being held prisoner by the panserbjørne (armored bears) on Svalbard, Lyra vows to rescue Lord Asriel and take him the alethiometer, which she believes he needs. For the most part, he takes little interest in Lyra except to make sure that she's healthy. Despite losing his assets, Lord Asriel continued to hold sway in political and theological circles, and he often leads expeditions to the North to study the Aurora and Dust.

Coulter had given birth to Lord Asriel's illegitimate daughter. Coulter's husband, who was upset to discover that Mrs. He lost everything, however, after Lyra's birth, when he was convicted for wrongfully killing Mrs. A tall, imposing, and wild-looking man, Lord Asriel was once a very powerful and well-connected person in politics. Lyra initially believes that Lord Asriel is her uncle-in reality, he's her father.

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