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Module 2　Fantasy Literature教材背景链接 名言佳句 That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. —L.W.Akott 好书使人开卷有所求，闭卷有所获。 ——奥尔科特 Literature is a kind of intellectual light which like the light of the sun，may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like. —Samuse Johnson 文学是一种理智之光，它和阳光一样，有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。 ——约翰逊 Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and disgested. —F.Bacon 一些书可以浅尝辄止；一些书可以狼吞虎咽；而有些书则需要细嚼慢咽，好好消化。 ——F.培根 类文欣赏 Philip Pullman Philip Pullman was born in Norwich in 1946，and traveled all over the world during his childhood，settling in North Wales at the age of 11.He studied at Oxford University，graduating in 1968 and becoming a teacher.He then taught in middle schools，writing plays during this period on which some of his later novels were based，later becoming a part-time senior lecturer in English at Westminster College，Oxford，with a special talent in oral storytelling. The first novel he wrote was for adults，but many of his works are for children.His books include four novels in the“Sally Lockhart”series，three play adaptations(改编)，including Frankenstein(1990)and Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror(1992)，and a book，How to Be Cool(1987)，adapted and broadcast by Granada Television in 1988.Clockwork(1996)was short-listed(把……列入决选名单) for the Whitbread Children’s Book Award and for a Carnegie medal in 1997. More recently，Philip Pullman has become well-known for the“His Dark Materials”series，fantasy novels telling the story of Lyra Belacque，a young girl whose destiny(命运)is to “change destiny”：Northern Lights(1995)，winner of a Carnegie Medal，the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and a British Book Award，and short-listed in 2007 for the Carnegie of Carnegies；The Subtle Knife(1997)；The Amber Spyglass(2000)，which was the first children’s book to win the Whitbread Book of the Year；and Lyra’s Oxford(2003)． The books in the ‘Dark Materials’ series have been adapted for the stage by Nicholas Wright and an o