Philip Pullman - Daemon Voices

La Belle Sauvage

The Golden Compass

The Subtle Knife

The Amber Spyglass

Lyras Oxford

Once Upon a Time in the North

The Ruby in the Smoke

The Shadow in the North

The Tiger in the Well

The Tin Princess

The Haunted Storm

Galatea

Count Karlstein

How to Be Cool

Spring-Heeled Jack

The Broken Bridge

The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

Clockwork, or, All Wound Up

The Firework-Makers Daughter

Mossycoat

The Butterfly Tattoo

I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers

Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline

The Scarecrow and His Servant

The Adventures of the New Cut Gang

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Grimm Tales: For Young and Old

Count Karlstein

The Adventures of John Blake

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright 2017 by Philip Pullman

Introduction 2017 by Simon Mason

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by David Fickling Books, Oxford, in 2017.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pullman, Philip, [date] author.

Title: Daemon voices : on stories and storytelling / by Philip Pullman.

Description: First American edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017049677 (print) | LCCN 2017053211 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525521174 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780525521181 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Storytelling in literature. | LiteratureAppreciation. | Pullman, Philip, [date]Books and reading. |Books and readingPsychological aspects. | Authors, EnglishBooks and reading. | Authorship.

Classification: LCC PN56.S7357 P85 2018 (print) | LCC PN56.S7357 (ebook) | DDC 809/.93353dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049677

Ebook ISBN9780525521181

Cover illustration by John Lawrence

Cover based on an initial concept by Ness Wood

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Topic Finder

Certain themes recur in more than one essay. The lists below identify some of those themes and group together the essays in which they are discussed.

ON CHILDRENS LITERATURE

• Imaginary Friends

• Intention

• Childrens Literature Without Borders

ON EDUCATION AND STORY

• Lets Write It in Red

• Talents and Virtues

• Paradise Lost

ON FOLK TALES, FAIRY TALES AND EPICS

• Epics

• Folk Tales of Britain

• As Clear as Water

• Imaginary Friends

• Magic Carpets

• The Classical Tone

ON HIS DARK MATERIALS

• Dreaming of Spires

• God and Dust

• Heinrich von Kleist: On the Marionette Theatre

• Reading in the Borderland

• The Path Through the Wood

• The Writing of Stories

ON MY OTHER BOOKS

• As Clear as Water

• Intention (The Scarecrow and His Servant)

• Poco a Poco (Clockwork and I Was a Rat!)

• The Firework-Makers Daughter on Stage

• The Path Through the Wood (I Was a Rat!)

• The Story of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

ON OTHER MEDIA: FILM, TV AND THE THEATRE

• Lets Pretend

• Lets Write It in Red

• Magic Carpets

• Oliver Twist

• The Writing of Stories

• The Firework-Makers Daughter on Stage

ON PICTURES

• A Bar at the Folies-Bergre

• Maus

• Oliver Twist

• Poco a Poco

• Reading in the Borderland

ON READING

• Balloon Debate

• God and Dust

• Talents and Virtues

• Reading in the Borderland

• The Anatomy of Melancholy

• Childrens Literature Without Borders

ON RELIGION AND STORY

• God and Dust

• I Must Create a System

• Talents and Virtues

• Paradise Lost

• The Origin of the Universe

• The Republic of Heaven

• The Story of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

• The Writing of Stories

ON SCIENCE AND STORY

• I Must Create a System

• Lets Write It in Red

• Poco a Poco

• The Origin of the Universe

• The Path Through the Wood

• The Writing of Stories

ON STORY IN CULTURE

• Balloon Debate

• Imaginary Friends

• Magic Carpets

• Talents and Virtues

• The Republic of Heaven

ON OTHER WRITERS STORIES

• As Clear as Water

• Heinrich von Kleist: On the Marionette Theatre

• I Must Create a System

• Maus

• Oliver Twist

• Paradise Lost

• The Anatomy of Melancholy

• The Classical Tone

• Soft Beulahs Night

ON THE WRITER

• I Must Create a System

• Lets Write It in Red

• Magic Carpets

• Talents and Virtues

• Poco a Poco

• The Cat, the Chisel and the Grave

• Writing Fantasy Realistically

ON THE PRACTICE OF WRITING

• God and Dust

• I Must Create a System

• Intention

• Lets Write It in Red

• Magic Carpets

• Oliver Twist

• Poco a Poco

• The Cat, the Chisel and the Grave

• The Classical Tone

• The Path Through the Wood

• The Writing of Stories