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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 ...
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 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]
Her closest friend among the other children is a Jordan kitchen boy named Roger Parslow, who disappears early in Northern Lights. The search to find Roger, and other children, is Lyra's motivation throughout much of Northern Lights. Lyra is described as having wavy dirty-blonde hair and pale-blue eyes, and is thin and short for her age.
The nighttime display of pink and purple lights across the sky was mostly visible in the high desert and along Highway 2 in Angeles National Forest. Northern lights appear in L.A. County skies ...
Initial reviews of Northern Lights were mixed, [5] but many critics noted the heavy influence of Ernest Hemingway upon the style, mood, and tone of the novel. [6] [7] One critic observed that O’Brien’s writing style in this novel is a “deliberate parody” of Hemingway. [8] Upon its publication in 1975, Kirkus Reviews wrote that:
A Canadian photographer captured the Northern Lights shimmering over the Canadian province of Alberta on April 17.Siv Heang Tav, who shot this footage, told Storyful she and two friends “who had ...
A Northern Light, or A Gathering Light in the U.K., is an American historical novel for young adults, written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Harcourt in 2003. Set in northern Herkimer County, New York in 1906, it is based on the murder of Grace Brown case —the basis also for An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925).