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The Elements of His Dark Materials
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Manufacturer: Fell Press
Author: Laurie Frost
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2006-09-15
Publisher: Fell Press
Label: Fell Press
Number Of Pages: 560
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Editorial Review
An illustrated, comprehensive, reader-friendly reference to Pullman's brilliant trilogy--valuable for fans and researchers alike. Packed with clues to literary imagery and subtle allusions, Frost's encyclopedia-style guide exposes the depths of all three titles, including the appendices in the 10th anniversary editions of
Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and
The Amber Spyglass published in the UK in 2005 (not yet released in the US).
The Elements of His Dark Materials features:
Foreword by Philip Pullman
140 photos
26 illustrations
11 maps (for example: Gobbler sightings, gyptians' voyage, Scoresby's journeys, Will and Iorek's route to the Himalayas)
12 chapters (for example: characters, places, applied and natural sciences, and social structures)
US and UK page numbers for each element described
Reference section with suggestions for further reading, works relating to His Dark Materials, and a Pullman bibliography.
Extra-textual remarks accompany some elements' entries and include:
Notes on text-level differences between the UK and US editions or between the three volumes;
Observations-- speculative comments
Facts-- real world counterparts to the fictional elements of the books
Updates--based on the appendices Philip Pullman added to the tenth anniversary editions of the trilogy (not yet released in the US).
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Customer Reviews
I was astounded 
2008-01-22
If Philip Pullman refers to this book, how can you go wrong? It is totally encyclopedic. A dense reference book that covers everything that you have remembered or may have forgotten. I keep referring to this tome though I am not currently re-reading the trilogy. The drawings, the cultural references (in the real world), the UK and US differences, this is a mind boggling work. I cannot imagine the effort put into this book. Laurie Frost has seemed, to me, to have exceeded all human limitations in documenting this masterwork.
Resources should always be shiny. 2007-11-25
There's no better recommendation for a reference book than when the author of the original series states that he's using it to help him remember his own books. And this reference has just such a recommendation.
This is an awesome source, part concordance, part encyclopedia, part character guide. It's a great companion and helped me innumerable times when I was looking for an elusive quote. I also enjoyed seeing the differences between the US and UK versions of the books laid out. The information is presented in a concise and entertaining way, and it's as easy to simply flip open a page and read a bit for fun as it is to look up a specific character or concept.
Frost's attention to detail makes this a book that I will always be glad to own. (Plus, the cover is a shiny picture of the Northern Lights, which just makes it that much more attractive.)
