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''Northern Lights'' (known as ''The Golden Compass'' in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published by Scholastic UK in 1995. Set in a parallel universe, it features 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 a trilogy, ''His Dark Materials'' (1995 to 2000).〔 Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, entitled ''The Golden Compass''.〔〔 Under that title it has been adapted as a 2007 feature film by Hollywood and as a companion video game. Pullman won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding British children's book.〔 For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel, composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.〔 ''Northern Lights'' won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" on 21 June 2007. ==Title== For some time during pre-publication of the novel, the prospective trilogy was known in the UK as ''The Golden Compasses'', an allusion to God's poetic delineation of the world. The term is from a line in Milton's ''Paradise Lost'',〔Frequently Asked Questions, 1: (【引用サイトリンク】title=Why is the trilogy called His Dark Materials? Why are there two different titles for the first book? ) Article 1 is a direct quotation of Pullman (no date).〕 where it denotes the drafting compass God used to establish and set a circular boundary of all creation:
Meanwhile, in the US, publisher Knopf had been calling the first book ''The Golden Compass'' (singular), which it mistakenly understood as a reference to Lyra's alethiometer (depicted on the front cover shown here), because of the device's resemblance to a navigational compass. By the time Pullman had replaced ''The Golden Compasses'' with ''His Dark Materials'' as the name of the trilogy, the US publisher had become so attached to its mistaken title that it insisted on publishing the first book as ''The Golden Compass'' rather than as ''Northern Lights'', the title used in the UK and Australia.〔 In the film version, the alethiometer is specifically referred to as a golden compass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northern Lights (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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