Northern Lights (novel)

Northern Lights (published in the US as The Golden Compass) is the first novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by British novelist Philip Pullman, and published in 1995.

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US - His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - 1995

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In real life, the resemblance of the protagonist Lyra Belacqua's alethiometer to a large compass caused the US publishers of Northern Lights to retitle the book The Golden Compass. In fact The Golden Compasses was an early proposal for the name of the trilogy (instead of His Dark Materials), taken from Milton's Paradise Lost, where it refers to a drawing instrument, rather than a navigation instrument.

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Protagonist Lyra Belacqua's - Alethiometer - Compass - Milton's - Paradise Lost

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Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995.

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