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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]
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:
Whether or not you've seen them in Alaska or Greenland, the spectacular aurora borealis — or, the northern lights — are a mystical, fascinating sight.
An aurora [a] (pl. aurorae or auroras), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), [c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains ...
Lyra Belacqua (/ ˈ l aɪ r ə b ə ˈ l ɑː k w ə / LY-rə bə-LAH-kwə), later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the heroine of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials.In His Dark Materials Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own.
The books further chronicle the adventures of Lyra Belacqua and her battle against the theocratic organisation known as the Magisterium, and shed more light on the mysterious substance called Dust. The first book, La Belle Sauvage, was published in October 2017, and is set 12 years before Northern Lights. It describes how the 11-year-old ...
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).