In 1946, acclaimed author Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, into a Protestant family. Although his beloved grandfather was an Anglican priest, Pullman became an atheist in his teenage years. He graduated from Exeter College in Oxford with a degree in English, and spent 23 years as a teacher while working on publishing 13 books and numerous short stories. Pullman has received many awards for his literature, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for exceptional children's literature in 1996, and the Carnegie of Carnegies in 2006. He is most famous for his His Dark Materials trilogy, a series of young adult fantasy novels which feature free-thought themes. The novels cast organized religion as the series' villain. Pullman told The New York Times in 2000: "When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato'—meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife." He argues for a "republic of heaven" here on Earth.
In 2007, the first novel of the His Dark Materials trilogy was adopted into the motion picture The Golden Compass by New Line Cinema. Many churches and Christian organizations, including the Catholic League, called for a boycott of the film due to the books' atheist themes. While the film was successful in Europe and moderately received in the United States, the other two books in the trilogy were not be adapted into film, possibly due to pressure from the Catholic Church. When questioned about the anti-church views in His Dark Materials, Pullman explains in an interview for Third Way (UK): “It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches—and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban. Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It's still going on" (Feb. 2002). Pullman has received many threats by ardent believers over his choice of subject matter.
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发表于2025-06-04
The Golden Compass 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
去年在一个论坛看到网友贴着的一张电影海报,被画面所吸引,尤其是对那个身穿披甲的北极熊印象深刻,于是想着不管电影内容精彩与否都要下载来看一看,我是一个科幻故事谜,所以当然不能错过了,其实这套书很早就在卓越网买哈利波特的时候注意过了,因为当时不知道故事好坏,又...
评分说实话,我挺佩服自己的,居然把这本繁体竖版的书看完了。 因为是台湾出版的,所以要从右往左看,这也罢了,繁体字我大致还能看懂,这也罢了,但是要命的是,是竖版! 曾经一度很要好的香港男生快递给我的,所以硬了头皮读了两遍。。。。。。万幸的是,读完第二遍之后,终于明...
评分 评分我就整天抱着手机了…… 满足地叹一下~ 不管你们说不说这是儿童小说!我就是觉得它好看!嗷! 啊啊啊我也想要精灵啊我也想要和超级大的披甲熊做好朋友啊啊啊啊啊!!!
评分由一个女孩引出这本书的关键内容 精彩的故事情节和精彩的画面 使我十分喜欢 很多魔幻的场面使我陶醉于该书中
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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
故事进入缓慢, 2/3开始很精彩,看完会很想看后面两本。
评分北极熊超级萌啊(sigh
评分3.5 作者的声音略浑浊。目前还没有遇到作者本人朗读自己作品的上乘有声书。
评分我为什么一点也不喜欢Lyra……是因为先看了电影吗?
评分不打算看第二本了……
The Golden Compass 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书