His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials is a fantasy novel series by British author, Philip Pullman.

Books

• Northern Lights
• The Subtle Knife
• The Amber Spyglass

His Dark Materials Media

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  Satan struggles through hell in a Gustave Doré illustration of Paradise Lost.

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  GodArchitect

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  Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine (1489–90), along with two portraits by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Hans Holbein the Younger, helped inspire Pullman's "dæmon" concept.

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  A traditional depiction of the Fall of Man Doctrine by Thomas Cole (Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, 1828). His Dark Materials presents the Fall as a positive act of maturation.