Still, the title The Golden Compass - and the bizarre story surrounding it - will always be associated with His Dark Materials. Winner of the Guardian Prize for Childrens Fiction. HBO's more recent series casually avoided this problem by using the name of the entire franchise instead. A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullmans award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Despite this - and the widespread presence of the true name of the first book in the series - The Golden Compass lent its name to the first film version of the story, the 2007 flop staring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. It was never meant to be singular or to even see the light of day. The "golden compass" of The Golden Compass was never meant to refer to the alethiometer. The switch from Pullman's (and Milton's) original plural to the singular is perhaps evidence that the association to the alethiometer was already in the publishers' minds, even if Pullman had never intended it. Regardless, the name was still a compelling enough title for the U.S. It's unclear whether they had accepted that the titular compass was not, in fact, Lyra's alethiometer at this point. E-Book Management of Fibromyalgia in Europe Several countries. Related: His Dark Materials: The Prophecy About Lyra Is Key to the Series - Here's What It Means The Golden Compass Personality test changes out the P (Perceiving) & (Judging) and.
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