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Bonneville, who has been tracking Lyra, is about to shoot her when he is prevented by Ionides who advises him to "leave her alive for now" as she will be the key to a great treasure to be found three thousand miles to the East. Lyra is greeted by Nur Huda, who tells her that "we have been waiting for
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Pantalaimon confronts the author Gottfried Brande at his home in Wittenberg, but is forced to leave when Brande pointedly ignores him. He is caught by Bonneville, but manages to escape when Bonneville is briefly arrested by Magisterium agents. Pan meets a young refugee named Nur Huda el-Wahabi who
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The desert of Karamakan, where the industry is centred, is difficult to access and all visitors are forced to leave their dæmons behind. Strauss asks how people reunite afterwards, and is informed of a place inhabited by separated dæmons called "the Blue Hotel". The party reach a vast well-guarded
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Lyra journeys across Europe and the East, following the addresses in Hassall's notebook and aided by supporters of Oakley Street as well as a loose collective of people who have been separated from their own dæmons. In Smyrna, Lyra is helped to adopt a disguise, and Malcolm just misses her. He is
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Lyra and Pantalaimon have a blazing row. Pan insists that the books Lyra is reading have blinded her to the essential non-rational elements of life, while Lyra angrily scorns any appeal to emotion. Pan disappears, leaving a note saying "Gone to look for your imagination". Distraught, Lyra guesses
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During a nightly excursion, Pan witnesses a man being murdered. A ticket inside the man's wallet leads them to a rucksack containing a journal and a notebook of addresses. The murdered man is Roderick Hassall, a botanist, and the journal that of his colleague Dr Strauss who had been studying a
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shot in the hip by a Magisterium agent, but is able to continue with difficulty. Lyra is sexually assaulted by some soldiers as she takes a train to Seleukeia. On arrival, she hires a guide, Abdel Ionides, to take her through the desert to the isolated area of ruins known as the Blue Hotel.
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Lyra has come to admire the works of two writers: Simon Talbot, a philosopher who asserts that rationality is all and that dæmons are a delusion; and the novelist Gottfried Brande who similarly denounces everything other than pure reason. Her dæmon Pantalaimon disapproves of both.
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red building, evidently of great importance. They are told that the price of entry is "a life", and Strauss is admitted. Hassall never sees him again, and returns home alone with Strauss's journal.
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At the end of the text, Pullman notes that three character names are those of real people: Bud Schlesinger, Alison Wetherfield, and Nur Huda el-Wahabi. El-Wahabi was one of the victims of the 2017
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Marcel Delamare, Lyra's uncle and an ambitious Magisterium cardinal, learns that rose oil allows people to see Dust. He enlists the help of a young alethometrist, Olivier Bonneville (son of
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Jordan College's new master, a pharmaceutical executive, tells Lyra that she must give up her rooms. Agents from the Magisterium ransack them but fail to find the rucksack's contents.
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of the title refers to things that are outside the realm of rational thought, such as ghosts, fairies, and superstition. Pullman took the title from a 17th-century
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arrange safe passage out of the country. Malcolm, meanwhile, is dispatched by Oakley Street to travel to Karamakan.
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This article is about the 2019 Philip Pullman novel. For the collection of folklore, see
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that Pan may go to the Blue Hotel, and resolves to follow. Her old friends the
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has lost her dæmon, and they decide to travel together to the Blue Hotel.
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The book was shortlisted for the 2020 Fiction Book of the Year in the
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Lyra is a student at St Sophia's College Oxford, but still lives at
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commercially-important rose whose oil is connected to
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Index

Marcel Delamare
The Secret Commonwealth (folklore collection)

Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust
David Fickling Books
ISBN
9780241373330
La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust
La Belle Sauvage
His Dark Materials
Lyra Silvertongue
setting
world
theocracy
heresy
sapient
dæmons
alethiometer
Jordan College
La Belle Sauvage
Malcolm Polstead
Dust
gyptians
Gerard Bonneville
Geneva
book of the same name
Robert Kirk

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