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| | Philip Pullman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mossycoat, retold by Philip Pullman, illustrated by Peter Bailey (1998) | | | Lewis' series The Chronicles of Narnia (which Pullman denounces as propaganda), and the usually negative portrayal of the "Church" in His Dark Materials. | | | His Dark Materials consisted of Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the US), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (a short companion piece, Lyra's Oxford, containing items of interest and a short story, has also been published). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Philip Pullman |
| | Pullman’s imagination is as wide-ranging as his sources, and the parallel worlds of his creation are populated by a fantastic cast which includes miniature spies, vampiric spectres, phantasmical familiars known as “daemons” as well as a procession of witches, angels and armoured bears. | | | Pullman’s fictions are complex, lengthy and difficult with plots that interweave substantial metaphysical themes of love, death, religion, nature and life. | | | Although Pullman takes his inspiration from various canonical works of English literature, Millicent Lenz observes that: “there are other, less lofty influences on Pullman’s writing [which include] his boyhood love for the comics – ‘Superman’ and ‘Batman’” (Hunt and Lenz Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction 2001: 125). |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5064
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| | Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials |
| | Pullman's worldview does away with God, but he has nothing to put in God's place to account for how we are here. | | | Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy - 'The Golden Compass' (called 'Northern Lights' in the UK), 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass' attack the Church and the Bible's picture of God. | | | Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy ('The Golden Compass' / Northern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass') is a series of best-selling stories for teenagers / young adults. |
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http://www.facingthechallenge.org/pullman.htm
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| | Arts Unlimited Arts features Interview: Philip Pullman |
| | Shortly after she remarried, when Pullman was nine, his grandfather told him: "Your mother is an unhappy woman and you must make allowances for her." Quite a burden for a nine-year-old, then. | | | In His Dark Materials, Pullman has written a children's adventure story, and to make larger claims for it is to undervalue the true distinction of Pullman's writing: his narrative gift, at once arresting and spirit-lifting. | | | Namely, that what happened in the Garden of Eden was the beginning of the world as we know it (the story appears in Bereishit, the beginning of the Five Books of Moses, for that reason), and not the great Fall, or end of all good, which is the Christian version. |
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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1103617,00.html
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| | His Dark Materials BridgeToTheStars.Net |
| | Philip Pullman writes in The Times today of his love of libraries and the necessity to preserve them in an increasingly internet dominated age, praising the Love Libraries movement launched this week. | | | Philip Pullman will be taking part in a discussion event at the Oxford Literary Festival in a fortnight's time. | | | Philip Pullman espoused the value of such literary classics as "Shakespeare, Beatrix Potter, Dickens and even The Bible," also including many traditional myths, legends and fairy tales. |
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http://www.bridgetothestars.net
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| | CBBC Newsround HOTSEAT Philip Pullman |
| | Philip: One of them was a book called the Magic Pudding which is an Australian comic children's book, a funny book about a magic pudding by a writer called Norman Lyndsey and it has got very funny pictures in it which he drew himself. | | | Philip: Well I'm flattered I suppose because people who say that don't usually say these books are just like the Lord of the Rings, a load of rubbish that was too, they generally say it because they are intending to say it is a good story or something and so I am flattered by that. | | | Philip: It is an interesting question but no it won't because if you were to let it change the way you write books you would very quickly start writing rotten books. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/chat/hotseat/newsid_1777000/1777895.stm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Pullman, Philip |
| | Michael Rosen is delighted by Philip Pullman's glorious picaresque, The Scarecrow and His Servant, and his lustrous retelling, Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp. | | | The learning curve from teaching to writing has taught Philip Pullman a simple lesson: children don't want literature, they want to be told a story. | | | In 2001 the BBC adapted his twisted fairy tale, I Was a Rat. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-184,00.html
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| | Powells.com Interviews - Philip Pullman (2000) |
| | Pullman: I will, but there wasn't time to do it before the book was published. | | | Mary, of course, comes with her own history, which we don't know much about until that point, but the whole reason she's been brought through the book is to tell that story. | | | Pullman: I knew that the story would fall into three parts. |
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http://www.powells.com/authors/pullman.html
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| | His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman |
| | Arguably the book is overfull with characters of different types, with Pullman not lingering enough on some but rather breathlessly employing one after the other as it suits him (and not necessarily the story). | | | "Pullman has set himself an ambitious task, trying to tell a complex yet realistic tale about the death of God and the true nature and destiny of man. He has the talent to have pulled it off, but unfortunately, his atheism gets in the way. | | | Pullman is perhaps not just telling a story, but showing an entire world and explaining not a moral but a worldview for his young readers." - |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/pullmanp/hisdarkm.htm
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| | The New Yorker: PRINTABLES |
| | Pullman’s first stories for children, which he published in the nineteen-eighties, were fanciful entertainments. | | | Pullman subscribes to Blake’s view of Milton as being “of the Devil’s party without knowing it.” He explained, “All of the imaginative sympathy of the poem is with Satan rather than with God.” | | | The boys had seen so little of their father that he wasn’t quite real to them; Philip remembers him only vaguely, as a paragon of masculine “glamour.” Like Lyra’s own neglectful father, he was “powerful and dashing,” as well as charmingly irresponsible. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/051226fa_fact
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| | The Kirk Center |
| | What Pullman attacks, therefore, lacks even the substantiality of a straw man. Pullman’s decision not to include Christ in his version of Paradise Lost is not only a cosmic cop-out, but a clue to the weakness of his story, which is ultimately shallow. | | | Pullman has come up with a wonderful device, and reams of plot flow out of his daemonology. | | | Although Philip Pullman’s trilogy of fantasy books for children, His Dark Materials, is barely known in the United States, that is set to change. |
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http://www.kirkcenter.org/bookman/44-1-bernthal.html
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| | The Chronicle: 12/2/2005: For the Love of Narnia |
| | Pullman's revulsion at this scene is unbounded — he calls it "one of the most vile moments in the whole of children's literature." But as John Gough, himself a professed nonbeliever, has argued, far from saying, "Death is better than life," Lewis's theme is, "Heaven is better than life." | | | Of all Pullman's charges against Lion and The Chronicles, the one that he has chosen to emphasize during the lead-up to the movie — namely, that Lewis's books are loveless — is the least persuasive of all. | | | "Demented and powerless," Pullman writes, "the aged being could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery." Every Christian character in the series is rotten to the core, and none of them bothers to pretend otherwise. |
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http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=84bgxkbbzvqrch10g3kbwp5g8kv3ccbn
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| | Encounter - 3/24/2002: Faith and Fantasy |
| | The extracts from Philip Pullman’s trilogy, His Dark Materials, were produced by Chivers and are available as audio cassettes in the Cavalcade imprint. | | | On the whole reviewers of Pullman’s books have noted his account of religion but they haven’t taken issue with it or with his account of Christian understanding. | | | Coffey Sarah Johnston and Melanie McDonagh take issue with Philip Pullman’s account of Christian tradition and understanding, but there may be a more fundamental problem with his reading of the biblical story of Adam and Eve. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s510312.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber ... |
| | Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy astounded the literary world, reaping high praise from adults as well as children. | | | I also find Pullman's comments about CS Lewis (who keeps his agenda hidden, and inspired) annoying, because a story, even if it's inspired by religion is so much more magical than one that isn't. | | | Paradise Lost is a true classic of literature, and for Pullman to become associated with it is not deserved. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0439994799
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| | Philip Pullman: Northern Lights - an infinity plus review |
| | The head of this organization, Mrs Coulter, is Lyra's mother; in Pullman's symbolic scheme, drawn overtly from Milton's Paradise Lost, she represents the often cruel and inflexible authority of God. | | | Pullman's inventive storytelling genius, which is expressed in rich, erudite, finely cadenced language, is enough to make this novel extraordinary; but its metaphysics carries it still further. | | | This 'Young Adult' novel, the first volume in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, is on its own a work of transcendent brilliance. |
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/northern.htm
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| | Alibris: Philip Pullman |
| | This companion to Philip Pullman's popular His Dark Materials trilogy features a story about Lyra as well as such mysterious extras ("which might be connected with the story") as a map of Oxford, a brochure for the cruise ship S.S. ZENOBIA, and a postcard from Oxford written by the inventor of the amber spyglass. | | | Master storyteller Philip Pullman tells the story of the Scarecrow, brought to life by a lightning bolt, and Jack, a boy who become his faithful servant. | | | This collection of the books making up Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is available in trade paperback editions in this special boxed set. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Pullman,Philip
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Pullman attacks Narnia film plans |
| | I think Mr Pullman not only hasn't the foggiest idea what he's on about, but is using one of the greatest children's literary tales to publicise his own work. | | | Pullman says that you do not find a single trace of love in the books. | | | Pullman's comments sound a bit extreme to me. I've read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and several other Narnia books, as well as Lewis' science fiction trilogy. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4347226.stm
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| | Powells.com Interviews - Philip Pullman (2003) |
| | This exciting new tale set in the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials saga includes a short story by Mr. | | | Pullman: I wish I were an illustrator sometimes. | | | Pullman: I'm not sure it's a good thing to be able to do. |
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http://www.powells.com/authors/pullman2003.html
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| | Author Profile: Philip Pullman |
| | Teenreads.com writer Jennifer Abbots recently had her ultimate dreams come true when she got a chance to talk with Philip Pullman about the big themes that run through his works. | | | He would like to carry on doing what he's doing now, and there seems no reason why he shouldn't, but if it suddenly became against the law to write stories, he would break the law without a second's hesitation. | | | His latest book is THE AMBER SPYGLASS, the third and most thrilling part of the HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. |
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http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-pullman-philip.asp
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| | Amazon.com: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1): Books: Philip Pullman |
| | Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. | | | Instead, how about Phillip Pullman's dark take on creation and extended riff on multiple themes raised in John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the Book of Genesis. | | | Pullman writes an exciting and interesting story that keeps you hooked. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679879242?v=glance
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| | Philip Pullman - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Philip Pullman, (born October 19, 1946), English writer, is the bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels, and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers. | | | Perhaps with more reason; Pullman, unlike J K Rowling, has an openly anti-Christian agenda and in the books of the His Dark Materials trilogy "the Church" is consistently on the side of wrong. | | | Like the Harry Potter books, the His Dark Materials books have been criticized by some Christian groups. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/p/ph/philip_pullman.html
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| | OUPblog: More from Philip Pullman |
| | LINK to excerpt from Pullman's introduction to Milton's classic. | | | Incidentally, when we had to truncate and perform Book II of Paradise Lost in my honours Milton class, we truncated the sentence Pullman mentions exactly as he indicates: "High on a throne of royal state, Satan exalted sat." | | | "There have been rumours about a film of Paradise Lost for a long time," Pullman says. |
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http://oupblog.typepad.com/oupblog/2005/10/more_from_phili.html
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| | Philip Nel's Literary Links: Children's Literature |
| | "Talking to Philip Pullman: An Interview" by Wendy Parsons and Catriona Nicholson (The Lion and the Unicorn 23.1 [1999]: 116-134. | | | Philip Nel > Weblinks > Literature > Children's | | | Daemons and Dual Audience in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials" by Susan R. Bobby (The Looking Glass 8.1 (Jan. 2004). |
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http://www.k-state.org/english/nelp/weblinks/literary/childrens.html
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| | Pullman, Philip - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pullman, Philip |
| | English writer of fiction for children and teenagers including Northern Lights (1995; in the USA published as The Golden Compass in 1996), the first book in the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy, which won the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book of the Year in the British Book Awards, both in 1996. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Pullman,+Philip
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| | His Dark Materials.org |
| | HIS DARK MATERIALS is Nicholas Wright’s two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman’s multi-award winning trilogy of novels Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (which was the first children’s book to win the Whitbread Prize). | | | We are one of the leading websites dedicated to the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. | | | Anand Tucker is a busy, busy man. With just two small-scale, intimate feature films to his name, he has been appointed by New Line, the company behind The Lord of the Rings, to direct His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's bestselling fantasy novels. |
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http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org
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| | Torre degli Angeli |
| | This site is in no way affiliated with the author Philip Pullman or Scholastic. | | | The His Darkest Materials books are © Philip Pullman and | | | The covers were designed by Black Sheep and the text illustrations are © Philip Pullman. |
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http://www.geocities.com/torre_degli_angeli
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| | His Dark Materials [an unofficial fansite] |
| | When The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman was published in 1995, it was the start of His Dark Materials, an ambitious trilogy that offered a startlingly new perspective on childhood, innocence, and sin. | | | His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass and all related characters, concepts, and commercial offspring are the property of Philip Pullman, Scholastic Books, Random House Inc, New Line Cinema and all other right-holders. | | | This site is not for profit and is not intended to infringe upon any commercial endeavors. |
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http://www.darkmaterials.com
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| | Heat and Dust |
| | We spoke to Philip Pullman, the first author to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (and to be ‘longlisted’ for the Booker Prize) for a children’s book, on the 13th February 2002. | | | Since 1993, Third Way has been talking in depth to men and women who help to shape our society or set the tone of our culture. |
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http://www.thirdway.org.uk/past/showpage.asp?page=3949
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| | surefish.co.uk: culture - Interview with Philip Pullman |
| | Writer Philip Pullman's books are selling in their millions. | | | Susan Roberts talked to Philip Pullman about God, the church and the meaning of life. | | | You've said that you believed in God until you were a teenager. |
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http://www.fish.co.uk/culture/features/pullman_interview.htm
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| | Granta: Philip Pullman |
| | Philip Pullman's novels include Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, published in the UK by Scholastic in the UK and Knopf in the US. | | | Philip Pullman explains how he fell in love with the music of Nicholai Medtner. | | | Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun, The Magic Pudding stands somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and The Stinky Cheese Man as one of the |
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http://www.granta.com/authors/1203
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| | National Theatre : Platforms : Philip Pullman |
| | Learn more about the adaptation of Philip Pullman's celebrated work as His Dark Materials comes to life on stage. | | | This Platform is chaired by Robert Butler, the author of the newly published The Art of Darkness, (NT Publications/ Oberon Books, £12.99 available from Boxing Day), which follows the staging of trilogy from early workshops through to first previews. | | | NT : What's On : Platforms : Philip Pullman |
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http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=6219
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| | ACHUKA - Children's Books UK - Philip Pullman |
| | ACHUKA - Children's Books UK - Philip Pullman | | | Having taught at middle school level for several years, he worked from 1988-96 as a part-time Senior Lecturer in English at Westminster College, Oxford, teaching courses in The Victorian Novel, The Traditional Tale, and Creative Writing. | | | Philip Pullman was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated at Ysgol Ardudwy, Harlech, Gwynedd, then at Oxford University. |
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http://www.achuka.co.uk/archive/interviews/ppsg.php
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| | Photograms :: Philip Pullman |
| | Pullman at the Lyra´s Oxford booksigning in Oxford Waterstones | | | Pullman at the Lyra´s Oxford booksigning in Oxford Waterstones 2 * | | | Pullman at the Lyra´s Oxford booksigning in Oxford Waterstones 3 * |
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http://gallery.sraf.org/philip_pullman
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| | Contact Philip Pullman |
| | I have two addresses for Philip Pullman below - one (which according to a certain website is his actual home address) and the other which you can send via Scholastic in the UK. | | | Thanks to Olie who submitted the original Pullman's address and everyone else who submitted the UK Scholastic one! |
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http://www.geocities.com/torre_degli_angeli/contact.htm
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| | The South Bank Show: Philip Pullman - TV.com |
| | Tell the world what you think of Philip Pullman. | | | The South Bank Show: Philip Pullman - TV.com |
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http://www.tv.com/south-bank-show/philip-pullman/episode/259899/summary.html
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