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In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Philip Pullman
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Prometheus, Hippo/Scholastic, Dinamo
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Russian, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780439977791
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“Rebecca Winter, gifted, cheerful, and poor, had lived sixteen years without once seeing a bomb go off.”
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, [*His Dark Materials*](/series/OL330755L/His_Dark_Materials), and his fictional biography of Jesus, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ*. The first of *His Dark Materials* has been turned into the film The Golden Compass and the first two books from his Sally Lockhart series have been adapted for television. In 2008, The Times named Pullman in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman
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