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LYRA'S OXFORD, a collectible clothbound gift hardcover, includes not only a beguiling new HIS DARK MATERIALS episode from Whitbread-Award-winning author Philip Pullman but also black-and-white woodcut illustrations by John Lawrence, a lavishly-illustrated fold-out map of Lyra’s Oxford in three... read more
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Characters edit
- Lyra Belacqua: also known as Lyra Silvertongue
- Pan: Lyra's daemon
- Ragi: a witches daemon in bird form
- Sebastian Makepeace: an alchemist
- Yelena Pazhets: Ragi's witch
- Dr. Polstead: Add a description of this character.
Quotes edit
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“Danger outside and suffocation within.”
Ragi -
“He's still alive—an eccentric ex-scholar. You find people like that on the fringes of scholarship—genuinely brilliant, sometimes— but cracked, you know, possessed by some crazy idea that has no basis in reality, but which seems to them to hold the key to understanding the whole cosmos.”
Miss Greenwood
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Since she and Will had parted two years before, the slightest thing had the power to move her to pity and distress; it felt as if her heart were bruised forever.
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“Everything means something,” Lyra said severely. “We just have to find out how to read it.”
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First Sentence edit
Lyra often didn't climb out of her bedroom window these days.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in His Dark Materials. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Pullman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: October 28, 2003
ISBN: 0-375-82819-2
Page Count: 64
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: October 28, 2003
ISBN: 0-375-82819-2
Page Count: 64
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ7.P968 Ly 2003
- Dewey: 823.914
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