fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:21 PM Page i THE AMBER SPYGLASS (cid:3) (cid:2) (cid:2) This book has been optimized for viewing at a monitor setting of 1024 x 768 pixels. fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:21 PM Page ii fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:21 PM Page iii Also by Philip Pullman His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass .Book I The Subtle Knife .Book II (cid:3) (cid:2) (cid:2) The Broken Bridge Count Karlstein I Was a Rat! The Ruby in the Smoke The Shadow in the North The Tiger in the Well The Tin Princess The White Mercedes fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:21 PM Page iv fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:21 PM Page v His Dark Materials Book Three THE AMBER SPYGLASS (cid:3) (cid:2) (cid:2) Philip Pullman AlFRed A. KNoPF New York fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 9/6/01 9:23 AM Page vi THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright © 2000 by Philip Pullman Jacket illustration copyright © 2000 by Eric Rohmann All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. “The Ecclesiast” from Rivers and Mountainsby John Ashbery. Copyright 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966 by John Ashbery. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for the author. “The Third Elegy” from Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke. Copyright © 1982 by Stephen Mitchell. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. KNOPF, BORZOIBOOKS, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. www.randomhouse.com/kids Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pullman, Philip, 1946– The amber spyglass / Philip Pullman. p. cm. — (His dark materials ; bk. 3) Summary: Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra’s father, Lord Asriel. eISBN 0-375-89003-3 v1.0 [1. Fantasy.] I. Title. PZ7.P968 Am 2000 [Fic]—dc21 00-044776 fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:21 PM Page vii The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations; The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up; The bones of death, the cov’ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry’d Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing, awakening, Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst. Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field, Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air; Let the inchained soul, shut up in darkness and in sighing, Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years, Rise and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open; And let his wife and children return from the oppressor’s scourge. They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream, Singing: “The Sun has left his blackness & has found a fresher morning, And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night; For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.” —from“America:A Prophecy”by William Blake fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:21 PM Page viii fm_pull_0679879269_lay.qxd 8/31/01 2:38 PM Page ix O stars, isn’t it from you that the lover’s desire for the face of his beloved arises? Doesn’t his secret insight into her pure features come from the pure constellations? —from“The Third Elegy”by Rainer Maria Rilke Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living. The night is cold and delicate and full of angels Pounding down the living. The factories are all lit up, The chime goes unheard. We are together at last, though far apart. —from “The Ecclesiast” by John Ashbery