Der Goldene Kompass (His Dark Materials, #1)

Paperback, 410 pages

German language

Published Sept. 13, 2004 by Distribooks.

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978-3-453-13744-8
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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 substance known as "Dust". Northern Lights is the first book of the trilogy, His Dark Materials (1995 to 2000). Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, under the name The Golden Compass, under which title it was adapted as a 2007 feature film and as a companion video game. The book has also been adapted as a TV series in 2019 under the name His Dark Materials. Pullman won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding British children's …

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  • Language readers
  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
  • Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction