The His Dark Materials trilogy made Pullman famous - the first book was made into the special-effects-heavy film The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman - and was widely recognized as an attack on religion, so Pullman's inspiration for his new book came from an unlikely source: the archbishop of Canterbury. An atheist, Pullman despised the messages embedded in Lewis' Christian allegory, so he wrote his own trilogy in response, titled His Dark Materials after a line from Milton's Paradise Lost. The author Philip Pullman is one of its best-known detractors. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia is a much loved work of literature - but not universally loved.
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