The Amber Spyglass
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Philip Pullman |
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| Cover artist | Philip Pullman & David Scutt |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | His Dark Materials |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Scholastic Point |
Publication date | November 14, 2001 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 518 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-439-99358-X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | The Subtle Knife |
| Followed by | Lyra's Oxford |
this is a sequel to the two other books the northern lights and the subtle knife, this is formally know as phil's book is the third and final novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by British author Philip Pullman, and published in 2000.
The Amber Spyglass won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, a prestigious British literature award.[1]
Plot summary
The Amber Spyglass deals most strongly of the three books with religious and metaphysical ideas, depicting the foreshadowed re-enactment (and inversion) of Milton's Paradise Lost,[2] and finally elaborating upon the nature of Dust. One of the most controversial elements of the story is the demise of Pullman's Authority, who is complementary to Milton's God. While Milton wrote his poem "to justify the ways of God to men," [3] Pullman has said, "My books are about killing God."[4] In The Amber Spyglass, Pullman has the Authority unmasked as a decrepit and immoral fraud who had been posing as Supreme Being, and who in the end suffers an ignomious death and dissipation into the wind. The book's two main protagonists, Lyra and Will, are present and take pity on the frail being as this occurs, but do not even recognize him.
See also
- 2000 in literature
- His Dark Materials
- The bench at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden featured late in the novel.
Footnotes
- ^ Gibbons, Fiachra (January 23, 2002). "Epic children's book takes Whitbread". The Guardian. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
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- ^ John Milton, "Paradise Lost" 41:2
- ^ "The shed where God died by Steve Meacham". Sydney Morning Herald Online. Retrieved 2003-12-13.
References
- Lenz, Millicent (2005). His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Phillip Pullman's Trilogy. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3207-2.
- Frost, Laurie (2006). The Elements of His Dark Materials. The Fell Press.
External links
- His Dark Materials | BridgeToTheStars.Net
- HisDarkMaterials.org
- Graphical timeline (unofficial)
- ISBN 0-345-41337-7 (American paperback edition)
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