His Dark Materials Book I: The Golden Compass | 誠品線上

黑暗元素三部曲: 黃金羅盤

內容簡介

內容簡介 ***COMING SOON! A NEW HBO SERIES, HIS DARK MATERIALS, BASED ON PULLMAN’S BOOKS***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.Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steall—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.A #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Guardian Prize for Children's FictionPublished in 40 Countries"Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years." —The Washington Post "Very grand indeed." —The New York Times"Pullman is quite possibly a genius." —Newsweek The questions, discussion topics, and author information that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of The Golden Compass . We hope that this guide will help you to navigate - alongside the story's young protagonist, Lyra Belacqua - Philip Pullman's richly imagined universe, populated by armored bears, gyptians, witches, and human beings, whose d�mons are never far from their side. D�mons are one of the most striking, charming, and powerful images in The Golden Compass . These spirit-creatures, which seem like physical representations of the human soul, can change form to reflect the myriad of emotional states their humans go through as children. But in adulthood, each d�mon settles into the animal form that best reflects the inner nature of its human counterpart. It is in this unusual and imaginative creation that Pullman turns his sharpest mirror back onto his readers, helping us to imagine our own souls as precious, living extensions of ourselves that we can love, challenge, or even betray. The Golden Compass is a complex story that turns on a simple word: 'Dust.' This Dust does not gather in the unswept corners of Jordan College, Lyra's Oxford home. Rather, this Dust seems to reveal - or perhaps contain - the thing that makes each human being a unique creature. The concept of Dust provokes fear in some; others realize that mastery over Dust could be the source of great power. Although she does not quite realize it, Lyra - along with her d�mon Pantalaimon - finds her life inextricably entangled with the exploration of Dust. And as her understanding of Dust and her mastery over a mysterious tool called the alethiometer increases, the dangerous journey that she seems destined to make takes some astounding twists and turns.

各界推薦

各界推薦 俠義豪情‧暢快淋漓 Philip Pullman 菲力普‧普曼 「哈利波特」和「魔戒三部曲」的成功，讓電影圈吹起一股奇幻探險電影的流行風潮。最新的奇幻電影「黃金羅盤」即將於十二月上映，網羅了影后「妮可基嫚」以及新龐德「丹尼爾克雷格」，不僅卡司陣容超強，連話題性也十足。片中描繪的魔法奇幻國度，針對宗教的諸多設定與安排，引發天主教會人士的抗議，發起杯葛運動。不過這樣的杯葛行動反而助長了「黃金羅盤」的聲勢，預料年底全球就將吹起一陣黃金羅盤旋風，讓這部電影可說未演先轟動。 「黃金羅盤」改編自英國著名作家菲力普．普曼的代表作「黑暗元素」三部曲的首部曲《黃金羅盤》，這一套超越童書的童書一出版即為普曼贏得暢銷作家與最危險的作家稱號，獲得書評家一致的推薦，也囊括各大獎項，最近更榮獲卡內基兒童文學獎票選為近70年來的「書中之書」！ 菲力普‧普曼，一九四六年十月十九日在諾威治（Norwich）誕生，從小就跟著擔任皇家空軍飛行員的父親四處旅行，這些周遊世界的豐富旅遊經驗，開闊了普曼對世界的看法，也對他寫作中多元空間的概念不無影響。他自牛津大學畢業之後曾於中學任教，後來於一九八六年時放棄教職專心寫作。一九九五年第一部《黃金羅盤》出版，隨即贏得英國衛報兒童小說獎、卡內基獎和書卷獎年度童書等殊榮。一九九七年第二部《奧祕匕首》也受到英國閱讀獎的青睞。第三部《琥珀望遠鏡》遲至二○○○年才出版，更是贏得廣大的注目，同時囊括書卷獎、書商協會年度作家獎、惠特筆獎童書及年度風雲書等大獎。這部『黑暗元素三部曲』可說是他的代表作，探討的議題宏大深邃，更將童書推向圖書舞台的中心，儼然已有了成為傳世經典的姿態。 普曼的故事格局開闊頗有托爾金的架式，用字淺辭也多有隱喻，故事中人物的性格強烈、愛恨分明，讀來頗有中國俠義小說的風味。這位認真的創作人對政治、宗教多有批判，特別擅長取法童話結構，作各樣的重組、顛覆，這樣的表現手法在《我是老鼠》一書中尤為精彩，令人讚賞。普曼曾說：「故事是天底下最重要的事。沒有了故事，我們甚至就不能成為人類。」從這裡我們不難看出這位創作者對故事的堅持，即使「黑暗元素三部曲」備受不同觀點的嚴厲批判，但也因為他的堅持我們才有機會進入這個想像力絕倫的奇幻世界，經歷一段充滿驚奇幻想、善惡永恆對抗的冒險。（本文原載於2007年12月份好讀）

作者介紹

作者介紹 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.

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