The Amber Spyglass

541 Pages·2012·1.6 MB·English

by  Pullman Philip

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THE AMBER
SPYGLASS
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Also by Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials:
The Golden Compass .Book I
The Subtle Knife .Book II
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The Broken Bridge
Count Karlstein
I Was a Rat!
The Ruby in the Smoke
The Shadow in the North
The Tiger in the Well
The Tin Princess
The White Mercedes
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His Dark Materials
Book Three
THE AMBER
SPYGLASS
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Philip Pullman
AlFRed A. KNoPF New York
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2000 by Philip Pullman
Jacket illustration copyright © 2000 by Eric Rohmann
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada
by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.
“The Ecclesiast” from Rivers and Mountainsby John Ashbery.
Copyright 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966 by John Ashbery. Reprinted by permission of
Georges Borchardt, Inc., for the author.
“The Third Elegy” from Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Rainer Maria Rilke. Copyright © 1982 by Stephen Mitchell.
Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
KNOPF, BORZOIBOOKS, and the colophon are registered trademarks
of Random House, Inc.
www.randomhouse.com/kids
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pullman, Philip, 1946–
The amber spyglass / Philip Pullman.
p. cm. — (His dark materials ; bk. 3)
Summary: Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the
forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra’s father, Lord Asriel.
eISBN 0-375-89003-3
v1.0
[1. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.P968 Am 2000
[Fic]—dc21 00-044776
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The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen
leave their stations;
The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;
The bones of death, the cov’ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry’d
Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing, awakening,
Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst.
Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field,
Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air;
Let the inchained soul, shut up in darkness and in sighing,
Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years,
Rise and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors
are open;
And let his wife and children return from the oppressor’s scourge.
They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream,
Singing: “The Sun has left his blackness & has found a
fresher morning,
And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;
For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.”
—from“America:A Prophecy”by William Blake
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O stars,
isn’t it from you that the lover’s desire for the face
of his beloved arises? Doesn’t his secret insight
into her pure features come from the pure constellations?
—from“The Third Elegy”by Rainer Maria Rilke
Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living.
The night is cold and delicate and full of angels
Pounding down the living. The factories are all lit up,
The chime goes unheard.
We are together at last, though far apart.
—from “The Ecclesiast” by John Ashbery