Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) has sold more than fifteen million copies and been has published in more than forty countries. The first volume, The Golden Compass, was made into a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. Pullman is at work on a companion His Dark Materials novel, The Book of Dust. He lives in Oxford, England.
“Pullman’s Fairy Tales offers something unique: the chance to watch
a master storyteller think through these most foundational of
tales. . . . It is fascinating.” —The New York Times
“You didn’t know you needed to reread Grimm. You do. This is a
grand and great book. . . . I read it ravenously, rapturously.”
—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Making Mischief: A Maurice
Sendak Appreciation
“Zippy! . . . These tales are about plot and economy and speed
[and] make great bedtime read-alouds for children who can handle a
little gore. . . . The original tales weren’t for children, of
course; they were for everyone. So is this book. . . . Pullman is
both erudite and funny. . . . He has fun with dialogue, and is
particularly snappy with dwarfs. . . . You know what? He crushes
it, as the youth of today are wont to say. . . . His translations
are perfection.” —The New York Times Book Review
“It is such a pleasure to read these tales again, to experience
their strangeness and richness, their violence and beauty, their
sheer nonsense. . . . Reading Pullman’s version it is impossible
not to hear Pullman’s own gentle voice; he is present on every
page. . . . [His] interventions work brilliantly.” —The Boston
Globe
“These wonder tales . . . compel belief as powerfully as any
adventure or thriller.” —Marina Warner, The Times Literary
Supplement
“Excellent . . . His beginnings are like invitations that cannot be
refused. . . . Pullman shows how completely he understands the
Grimms. . . . [He] pays homage to the Brothers’ pioneer work and
simultaneously breathes new life into a great, venerable tradition
of magical storytelling.” —Jack Zipes, Los Angeles Review of
Books
“A real pleasure to read . . . This is the kind of writing that
stands up to years of bedtime repetition. . . . The author’s best
appearances are in the notes, which are often as entertaining as
the stories themselves. . . . Swiftness and clarity, he says, were
his guiding principles; to which he has added wit and invention. .
. . Beautiful or grotesque, the mad poetry of these tales is often
delightfully funny too.” —The Economist
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