by Philip Pullman · Gallimard · tapa dura · ISBN 9782070509973
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«A la croisée des mondes, tome 1: Les Royaumes du Nord» is the fantasy novel by Philip Pullman published by Gallimard in hardcover (355 pages, in French).
Lyra is a girl living in a world strangely like ours, with zeppelins, witches and armored bears. Every person is accompanied by a daemon, an animal that is part of their soul; Lyra's is called Pantalaimon. The girl travels to the Northern Kingdoms in search of the truth about the mysterious Poussière.
First installment of the His Dark Materials trilogy; originally published in English as Northern Lights in 1995. The French edition was published on October 2, 1998.
For readers aged 11 and up, fans of young adult fantasy with imaginative worlds.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
