His Dark Materials

...Getty Images While it may well sound like sour grapes, Philip Pullman, the author of the trilogy His Dark Materials, has castigated his fellow best-selling novelist Dan Brown for his "flat, stunted and ugly" prose. As The Lost Symbol,...

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...viewpoint, and unsuited to age group". Other works featuring in the most-challenged books list for 2008 include Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Parents' concern Pullman told Britain's...

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...which have been criticised by Pullman. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has, however, proposed that His Dark Materials should be taught as part of religious education in schools. Reprieve's party, which will be hosted by...

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...adventures like "Little House on the Prairie." Very few speak in moral terms in what David calls the neoclassic tradition of the Harry Potter books or Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Despite the latter's crude anti-Christian...

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...the "story" that Jesus had a divine link. Pullman has previously ruffled feathers in religious circles with the trilogy His Dark Materials, interpreted by some groups as being anti-Christian. He said: "By the time the gospels were being...

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They are looking at the same world but seeing quite different things. Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials film trilogy in doubt after Golden Compass sequel in limbo The publication today of the minutes from the September meeting of the...

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...on a new government database. Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, described the Home Office policy as "corrosive and poisonous to every kind of healthy social interaction. " He said: "I've been going into...

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...another assault on Christianity, a story that denies Jesus was the son of God. Pullman raised the ire of both Anglican and Catholic churches through His Dark Materials, which was set in a parallel universe, where the protagonist of the...

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...think I've contributed to the city is amazing.'' Oxford-based author Mr Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, is due to cut a giant ribbon at the unveiling ceremony at 10am. The event marks the start of the Oxford Open Doors...

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