The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
Lyra and her daemon return as she and 12-year-old Will Parry are in a desperate flight for Will's life. They are drawn closer to Will's father and to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, magical, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds. Through it all, the pair are drawn deeper and deeper into a fierce battle they may not survive.
With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The d?mons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.
The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens, Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her d?mon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.
As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dmon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can't quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.
Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be possible," Will demands. "Things have to be true!" It is Philip Pullman's gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful.
--Kerry Fried
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy now appears in sophisticated trade paperback editions, each title embossed within a runic emblem of antiqued gold. The backdrop of The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book I sports a midnight blue map of the cosmos with the zodiacal ram at its center. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass carry similarly intriguing cover art, and all three titles offer details not seen in the originals: in Compass and Knife, for example, Pullman's stamp-size b&w; art introduces each chapter; Spyglass chapters open with literary quotes from Blake, the Bible, Dickinson and more.
--Publishers Weekly
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] 下載 epub mobi pdf txt 電子書The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 下載 2025
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載以前看過電影,覺得不錯,很可惜沒有續集瞭,買瞭書就方便看瞭
評分快積一套瞭 開心啊 好書
評分不錯
評分 評分說、讀、寫等交際活動的能力,即 “四會”。從學習的角度來說,“讀”是其它“三會”的基礎,因為在國內學習英語的環境中,聽、說、寫的機會較少,我們通常是通過大量閱讀各種英語書報雜誌來豐富我們的“ 語感”(Speech feeling)(即對英語的感性認識),擴大英語詞匯量,提高英語理解和錶達能力。
評分讀書可以暢流…… 讀書給人恬淡、寜靜、心安理得的快樂,是名利、金錢不可取代的,
評分學習和掌握一些讀書的方法,這不是人生的第一大快事嗎?下麵,我就和大傢分享讀書的各種樂趣吧!
評分等到退休瞭,一定要把這些書都好好看看,太有趣瞭,現在主要是給孩子講,著重英語學習,以後就該享受故事情節的跌宕起伏,期待啊。
評分買瞭黃金羅盤之後,就想把黑色物質的三部麯全部收入,但是一直沒活動,現在有瞭,趕緊買瞭。作者是我最喜歡的,菲利普·普爾曼20世紀以來最重要的英國童書作傢之一。畢業於牛津大學,曾任西敏學院兼任講師,教授維多利亞時期文學與民間故事,目前與傢人住在英國,專事寫作。除瞭青少年小說外,也撰寫劇本與圖畫書。
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025