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Philip Pullman

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in Norwich, Norfolk, England, The United Kingdom

October 19, 1946

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https://www.philip-pullman.com

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As a passionate believer in the democracy of reading, I don't think it's the task of the author of a book to tell the reader what it means.

The meaning of a story emerges in the meeting between the words on the page and the thoughts in the reader's mind. So when people ask me what I meant by this story, or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one, I have to explain that I'm not going to explain.

Anyway, I'm not in the message business; I'm in the "Once upon a time" business.

Philip Pullman is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and 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 Wee ...more

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	The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 1,555,966 ratings — published 1995 — 555 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 443,635 ratings — published 1997 — 163 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 367,623 ratings — published 2000 — 376 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3) 4.29 avg rating — 164,046 ratings — published 2000 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 104,536 ratings — published 2017 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 56,261 ratings — published 2019 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 29,383 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lyra's Oxford (His Dark Materials, #3.5) by Philip Pullman, John Lawrence (Illustrator) 3.62 avg rating — 28,809 ratings — published 2003 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman (Editor), Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm 4.06 avg rating — 22,744 ratings — published 2012 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once Upon a Time in the North (His Dark Materials, #0.5) by Philip Pullman, John Lawrence (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 17,173 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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