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title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=La+Belle+Sauvage&rft.author=%5B%5BPhilip+Pullman%5D%5D&rft.date=19+October+2017&rft.pub=%5B%5BDavid+Fickling+Books%5D%5D+%28UK%29&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.pages=560+%28UK%29&rft.series=%27%27%5B%5BThe+Book+of+Dust%5D%5D%27%27"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:La_Belle_Sauvage.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0e/La_Belle_Sauvage.jpg/220px-La_Belle_Sauvage.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="338" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/La_Belle_Sauvage.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="260" data-file-height="400" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Dust" title="The Book of Dust">The Book of Dust</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Release number</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Fickling_Books" title="David Fickling Books">David Fickling Books</a> (UK)<sup id="cite_ref-Penguin_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Penguin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span 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It is the first volume of a planned trilogy titled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Dust" title="The Book of Dust">The Book of Dust</a></i> and is set twelve years before Pullman's <i><a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials" title="His Dark Materials">His Dark Materials</a></i>. It presents events prior to the arrival of the six-month-old <a href="/wiki/Lyra_Belacqua" title="Lyra Belacqua">Lyra Belacqua</a> at <a href="/wiki/Jordan_College,_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="Jordan College, Oxford">Jordan College, Oxford</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Setting">Setting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Belle_Sauvage&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Setting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Setting_(narrative)" title="Setting (narrative)">setting</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction" title="Parallel universes in fiction">world</a> dominated by the Magisterium (commonly called "the Church"), an international <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocracy</a> which actively suppresses <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heresy</a>. In this world, humans' souls naturally exist outside of their bodies in the form of <a href="/wiki/Sentience" title="Sentience">sentient</a> "<a href="/wiki/D%C3%A6mon_(His_Dark_Materials)" title="Dæmon (His Dark Materials)">dæmons</a>" in animal form which accompany, aid, and comfort their humans. An important plot device is the <a href="/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials)#Alethiometers" title="Dust (His Dark Materials)">alethiometer</a>, or symbol reader, of which just six are known to exist in this world. By setting three of the alethiometer's hands to point to symbols around a dial a skilled practitioner can pose questions, which are answered by the movement around the dial of a fourth hand. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Belle_Sauvage&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trout_Inn_by_the_Thames_at_Godstow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_708425.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Trout_Inn_by_the_Thames_at_Godstow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_708425.jpg/220px-Trout_Inn_by_the_Thames_at_Godstow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_708425.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Trout_Inn_by_the_Thames_at_Godstow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_708425.jpg/330px-Trout_Inn_by_the_Thames_at_Godstow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_708425.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Trout_Inn_by_the_Thames_at_Godstow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_708425.jpg/440px-Trout_Inn_by_the_Thames_at_Godstow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_708425.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/The_Trout_Inn" title="The Trout Inn">The Trout Inn</a>—a fictional version of which features in the book</figcaption></figure> <p>Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A6mon_(His_Dark_Materials)" title="Dæmon (His Dark Materials)">dæmon</a> Asta live three miles from Oxford. Malcolm works alongside fifteen-year-old Alice in his parents' inn, The Trout, close to the Priory of St. Rosamund where Malcolm helps the nuns with maintenance and cooking. One day, three men, led by the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Nugent, arrive at the inn and question Malcolm about the priory. Shortly afterwards, an infant aged around six months named <a href="/wiki/Lyra_Belacqua" title="Lyra Belacqua">Lyra</a> arrives in the care of the nuns. </p><p>Walking near the river, Malcolm sees a failed attempt at a <a href="/wiki/Dead_drop" title="Dead drop">dead drop</a> and finds a secret message. The intended recipient is Hannah, an Oxford academic specialising in the <a href="/wiki/Alethiometer" class="mw-redirect" title="Alethiometer">alethiometer</a> who is secretly helping an organisation known as "Oakley Street" in its fight against the theocratic extremism of the Magisterium. Using the alethiometer Hannah finds Malcolm and retrieves her message. The two strike up a friendship in which Malcolm assists her intelligence-gathering and she provides him with books to read from her own library. </p><p>The Magisterium's influence grows. At Malcolm's school, students are encouraged to join the League of St. Alexander, and to report anybody—including teachers—who contradict the Magisterium's religious views. <a href="/wiki/List_of_His_Dark_Materials_and_The_Book_of_Dust_characters#Farder_Coram" title="List of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust characters">Coram van Texel</a>, also working for Oakley Street, is investigating the activities of <a href="/wiki/Marisa_Coulter" class="mw-redirect" title="Marisa Coulter">Marisa Coulter</a> in Sweden. He discovers that she is looking into the <a href="/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials)" title="Dust (His Dark Materials)">Rusakov field</a> and has asked an alethiometrist to find her daughter Lyra's location. Coram is followed by a man with a malevolent hyena dæmon and fights him, badly wounding the dæmon's front leg. Lyra's father, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Asriel" title="Lord Asriel">Lord Asriel</a>, visits the inn and Malcolm takes him to visit Lyra. To escape his pursuers Asriel borrows Malcolm's canoe, <i>La Belle Sauvage</i>. As a token of thanks, he returns it significantly improved. Coram warns Malcolm of an impending flood, but Malcolm is unable to convince people to act. A man named Gerard Bonneville arrives at the inn, accompanied by a three-legged hyena dæmon, and Malcolm sees him snooping around the priory. </p><p>Heavy rain starts to fall. Alice warns Malcolm about Bonneville, whom they see trying to take the baby Lyra. As the flood arrives, Malcolm and Alice rescue the child and escape down river in <i>La Belle Sauvage</i>. They intend to stop at <a href="/wiki/Jordan_College,_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="Jordan College, Oxford">Jordan College</a> to seek academic sanctuary for Lyra, but are prevented by the ferocity of the floodwaters. Instead, they head to London, where Lord Asriel lives, pursued by Bonneville; both Oakley Street and the Magisterium are also searching for them. They narrowly escape from Bonneville when Malcolm stabs him in the thigh and Alice shoots his dæmon, shattering her other leg. They take his heavy backpack. Shortly afterwards, they meet George Boatwright, a former patron of The Trout who has been in hiding with a small community since offending the Church. Their arrival is reported to The League of St. Alexander, and Lyra is captured and taken to an orphanage run by a convent. Malcolm enters through the <a href="/wiki/Scullery" title="Scullery">scullery</a> and rescues her. </p><p>The children continue their journey in the canoe. A fairy woman named Diania gives them food and feeds Lyra, whom she claims and intends to keep. In Bonneville's pack, they find his scientific papers describing the Rusakov field and an alethiometer in a <a href="/wiki/Puzzle_box" title="Puzzle box">puzzle box</a>. They use the box to help them escape by tricking Diania and winning a challenge to keep Lyra. Later, they find themselves in an elegant garden where a party is being held. Behind a wall of mist nearby are all the things the partygoers wish to forget. Their onward passage is blocked by a pair of massive lock gates controlled by a river giant. Pretending to have authorisation from the King, they persuade the giant to open the gates. The canoe ends up at a <a href="/wiki/Mausoleum" title="Mausoleum">mausoleum</a>, where Bonneville attacks again but is killed by Malcolm. </p><p>Alice, Malcolm, and Lyra finally make it to London, closely followed by the forces of the Magisterium. Lord Nugent and Lord Asriel rescue them from <i>La Belle Sauvage</i>, which is breaking up, and Lord Asriel takes them by gyrocopter to Jordan College where he obtains academic <a href="/wiki/Sanctuary" title="Sanctuary">sanctuary</a> for Lyra and leaves her in the care of the <a href="/wiki/Master_(college)" class="mw-redirect" title="Master (college)">Master</a>. Malcolm secretly places Bonneville's alethiometer with Lyra's possessions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication_history">Publication history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Belle_Sauvage&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Publication history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pullman conceived <i>The Book of Dust</i> before the publication of <i><a href="/wiki/Lyra%27s_Oxford" title="Lyra's Oxford">Lyra's Oxford</a></i> in 2003, originally as a single volume.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian-06Apr03_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-06Apr03-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing was under way by 2005,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but by 2011 Pullman said that he was considering splitting the novel into two volumes, one set before <i>His Dark Materials</i> and the other set afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2017, Pullman announced that <i>The Book of Dust</i> had become a 'companion' trilogy.<i><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i> </p><p>Prior to publication it had been announced that <i>The Book of Dust</i> was to be published by Random House Children’s Books and David Fickling Books in the UK, and by <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House Children's Books</a> in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>La Belle Sauvage</i> was ultimately released on 19 October 2017<sup id="cite_ref-Penguin_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Penguin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by <a href="/wiki/David_Fickling_Books" title="David Fickling Books">David Fickling Books</a> in the UK,<sup id="cite_ref-Penguin_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Penguin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf">Alfred A. Knopf</a> in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-LOCcat_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LOCcat-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Belle_Sauvage&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel received positive reviews. <a href="/wiki/Marina_Warner" title="Marina Warner">Marina Warner</a> writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> described it as "worth the wait", calling it "old-fashioned and comfy".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> said that "<i>La Belle Sauvage</i> has the feel of an extended preface; thrillingly entertaining and beautifully written, but ultimately something of an introduction to the story proper we know follows thereafter".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> was extremely positive, stating that "too few things in our own world are worth a 17-year-wait: <i>The Book of Dust</i> is one of them".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_A.V._Club" title="The A.V. Club">The A.V. Club</a></i> said that "even without the deep well of context of those other books of Dust, <i>La Belle Sauvage</i> stands on its own as a singularly beguiling work of fantasy. It's sure to be devoured by readers young and old alike".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> took issue with flat dialogue and pacing but said that "even with its longueurs, the book is full of wonder."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i> said that "as a tale of flight and pursuit, it’s altogether enjoyable," but suggested that Pullman's larger aspiration—"to see off Christianity"—was an impediment to his storytelling and that the metaphysical ideas around which the narrative revolves were its least successful part.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptation">Adaptation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Belle_Sauvage&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Adaptation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A stage adaptation of the novel by <a href="/wiki/Bryony_Lavery" title="Bryony Lavery">Bryony Lavery</a> was scheduled to be performed at the <a href="/wiki/Bridge_Theatre" title="Bridge Theatre">Bridge Theatre</a> London in July 2020 with <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Hytner" title="Nicholas Hytner">Nicholas Hytner</a> directing. Hytner had also directed the original <a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials_(play)" title="His Dark Materials (play)">National Theatre adaptation of His Dark Materials</a>. The <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> caused the closing of the theatre for most of 2020, and the production was postponed. The play opened on 7 December 2021, and closed on 26th February 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Belle_Sauvage&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Penguin-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Penguin_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Penguin_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Penguin_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Penguin_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Penguin_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1005201/la-belle-sauvage-the-book-of-dust-volume-one/">"La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One"</a>. <i>Penguin Books</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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