LibGuides: Out of the Ordinary: Costume Design for Fantasy: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

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La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Call Number: PZ7.P8556 B66564 2017
ISBN: 9780375815300
Publication Date: 2017
The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last! Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part. Pullman and early reviewers have cited several influences on the plot of La Belle Sauvage: the tangental nature of Edmund Spenser’s 16th-century romantic epic The Faerie Queene, The Odyssey, The Iliad, biblical stories from the Flood to Moses escaping Pharaoh in his basket to Jesus’s persecution by King Herod.

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Philip Pullman's own illustrations for several of his books