by Philip Pullman · Knopf Books for Young Readers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375843693
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«Lyra's Oxford» is the fantasy short story by Philip Pullman, published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in hardcover (49 pages, in English).
Two years after «The Amber Spyglass», Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon are at Jordan College when a strange bird, a witch's daemon, appears seeking an elixir to cure her. Lyra decides to accompany it to the house of the alchemist Sebastian Makepeace, but the mission soon stops seeming simple.
Companion volume to the «His Dark Materials» saga (No. 3.5), originally published in 2003; this edition is from 2007. Includes engravings by John Lawrence, a fold-out map of Oxford and mementos of the past.
For fans of «His Dark Materials» and young fantasy readers who prefer a short story.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
