Northern Lights
About this book
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
His Dark Materials · 7 books
In publication order- 1 Northern Lights 1995 This book
- 2 The Subtle Knife 1997
- 3 The Amber Spyglass 2000
- Lyra's Oxford 2003
Subjects
- adventure stories
- arctic regions
- arctic regions -- fiction
- arctic regions -- juvenile fiction
- artic regions
- belacqua, lyra (fictitious character)
- belacqua, lyra (fictitious character) -- juvenile fiction
- belacqua, lyra (personaje literario)
- bien y mal
- children
- children and adults
- experimentos
- experiments
- fantasy
- fantasy fiction
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- good and evil
- imaginary places
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile fiction -- action & adventure
- juvenile fiction -- fantasy & magic
- juvenile fiction -- social themes -- self-esteem & self-reliance
- kidnapping
- kidnapping -- fiction
- kidnapping -- juvenile fiction
- lugares imaginarios
- lyra belacqua (fictitious character)
- magia
- magic
- missing persons
- missing persons -- experiments
- missing persons -- experiments -- juvenile fiction
- missing persons -- fiction
- niños
- novela fantástica
- novela fantástica inglesa
- novela juvenil
- open library staff picks
- parry, will (personaje literario)
- personas desaparecidas
- polar bears
- political theology
- quests (expeditions)
- secuestro
- skjønnlitteratur
- traducciones al español
- will parry (fictitious character)
- witches
- young adult fiction