Dark Matters: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Philip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy

By Mark Jones and Lance Parkin

Book Overview

Philip Pullman's books – The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, making up the trilogy known as His Dark Materials, have been a massive success with children and adults alike.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753510251
• ISBN13: 9780753510254
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A well done guide to the persons, places, and references of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials

If you're weak on your Milton, Blake, Lewis, and Elliot, this will help out with the references. It's a fun read, or a useful reference, your choice. Lance Parkins is best known for his work, fiction and non-fiction, involving Dr. Who. Mark Jones I hadn't known anything about before seeing this book, but he seems to be a well-known writer of guidebooks and online materials.

Superb stuff

An excellent guide to a challenging series. The best bit is an A-Z of all the names, places and concepts. I learned a lot about Blake, CS Lewis and other people Pullman is influenced by. This is a very readable guide, and could also be useful for anyone writing a paper on the His Dark Materials books.