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Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK.Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious ...
In 2008, The Observer cites Northern Lights as one of the 100 best novels. [27] Time magazine in the US included Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. [28] In November 2019, the BBC listed His Dark Materials on its list of the 100 most influential novels. [29]
This is a list of characters from the two Philip Pullman trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Introduced in Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua Main article: Lyra Belacqua Lyra Belacqua, later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the central character of His Dark Materials and a key character in The Book of Dust. Together with her dæmon Pantalaimon, she is introduced in La Belle Sauvage ...
In Northern Lights, Lord Asriel reveals the origins of the term "Dust" to be from a passage from the slightly alternative version of the Bible in Lyra's world: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." — Genesis 3:19
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995) (published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). This is a list of the fictional races and creatures in the novels.
The northern lights will be visible for parts of the northern U.S., according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center's aurora forecast. The aurora will be visible over much of Canada and ...
It would be nice too, occasionally, to read a review of an adult book that said, 'This book is so interesting, and so clearly and beautifully written, that children would enjoy it as well.'" [45] He is an admirer of Philippa Pearce; when Pullman's Northern Lights won the Carnegie of Carnegies, Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden was the runner-up ...
The northern lights, seen here in Oregon in May, might be visible in parts of the U.S. on New Year's Eve. (Jenny Kane/AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)