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Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Start from a classic and follow its line, one work at a time, across the map.
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Start from a classic and follow its line, one work at a time, across the map.
John Milton, AD 1667
Pullman takes his title from Book 2 of Paradise Lost, 'his dark materials to create more worlds', and tells Milton's story of the Fall in reverse: Lyra, a new Eve, is right to choose knowledge, and the rebellion against the Authority is the side to be on.
“It functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, in which Pullman commends humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing, original sin.” Read it there
No later work in the atlas draws on His Dark Materials yet.