His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1)
His Dark Materials: Book #1
- By: Philip Pullman
- Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Full Cast, Joanna Wyatt, Rupert Degas, Alison Dowling, Douglas Blackwell, Jill Shilling, Stephen Thorne, Sean Barrett, Garrick Hagon, John O'Connor & Susan Sheridan
- Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Description
HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!
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 steal--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 Bestseller
Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction
Published 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
Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials!
** THE BOOK OF DUST **
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His Dark Materials Series

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1)
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Full Cast, Joanna Wyatt, Rupert Degas, Alison Dowling, Douglas Blackwell, Jill Shilling, Stephen Thorne, Sean Barrett, Garrick Hagon, John O'Connor & Susan Sheridan
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!
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... Read more »

His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (Book 2)
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman & Full Cast
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!
The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time," continues the epic adventure, ... Read more »

His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Book 3)
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman & Full Cast
Length: 14 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!
The unforgettable His Dark Materials trilogy that began with The Golden Compass and continued with The Subtle Knife, reaches its astonishing conclusion in The Amber Spyglass. These modern fantasy classics have been hailed... Read more »

Once Upon a Time in the North: His Dark Materials
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Nigel Whitmey, Sean Barrett, John Chancer, Andrew Branch, Tim Bentinck, Hayward Morse, Teresa Gallagher, Paul Panting, Jane Collingwood, Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross & Jo Wyatt
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Another mesmerizing episode from the universe of His Dark Materials set in the far frozen Arctic, including the very first meeting of those two legends and friends Lee Scoresby, the Texan balloonist, and Iorek Byrnison, the armored bear. Read more »
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Lyra's Oxford: His Dark Materials
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Joanna Wyatt, Anton Lesser, Richard Pearce, Douglas Blackwell, Daniel Flynn, Nicolette McKenzie, Garrick Hagon & Liza Ross
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
***** THE BOOK OF DUST, the long-awaited new novel from Philip Pullman set in the world of His Dark Materials and narrated by Michael Sheen, has been hailed by the New York Times as "a stunning achievement." Find it on audio from Listening Library. *****
An exciting tale set in the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials saga
Lyra's... Read more »

His Dark Materials: Serpentine
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Olivia Colman
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A bewitching tale with a fascinating new glimpse of young Lyra and her dæmon, Pantalaimon. This companion to the New York Times bestselling His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust series follows Pullman's beloved characters on a brand new adventure.
After the world-altering events of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra and Pan find themselves irrevocably... Read more »