Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Emma Watson...respectively. Rowling supported Watson from her first screen test. The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was Watson's debut screen performance. The film broke records for opening-day sales and opening weekend... In this article: Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson, Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Ballet Shoes, Rupert Grint, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Oxford, and Brown University |
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | October 21, 2009
Reallife Harry Potter' 'taunted about his name'
...Tracey Shaw had no idea how famous the name would become. After J K Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , was published his life changed forever. Now he suffers daily problems with the reaction to his name...
In this article: Harry Potter, J K Rowling, Lloyds TSB, and Portsmouth
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BBC News | October 10, 2009
Harry Potter book student dies
...to fund his university degree has been found dead in his room. Toby Rundle, 21, from Somerset, sold his hardback copy of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone. He was studying Classics and English at Oxford University's Lady...
In this article: Lady Margaret Hall, Harry Potter, Oxford University, Polarised, JK Rowling, and London
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Guardian Unlimited | September 08, 2009
Gilliam relieved over Potter snub
...Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, was reportedly author JK Rowling's first choice to direct a movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2000, but Warner Bros went with Chris Columbus...
In this article: Terry Gilliam, Harry Potter, Chris Columbus, JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, God, Total Film, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Reuters | December 03, 2008
FACTBOX: Facts about Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling
...napped. She completed the manuscript for the first Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in 1995, but it was rejected by around a dozen publishers before Barry Cunningham of Bloomsbury agreed to take her on. * It...
In this article: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Facts, Warner Bros., and Edinburgh
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Yahoo! News | October 25, 2007
Potter 1st edition sells for nearly $41K
...of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the...
In this article: J.K. Rowling, London, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Philosopher's Stone, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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FACTBOX: Sixth Harry Potter movie set for release
...Potter story, called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", in 1995, having written some of it in local cafes in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was an unemployed mother living on benefits. * After being rejected by a series of...
In this article: Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter films, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Hogwarts School
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International Herald Tribune | October 03, 2007
Fans worldwide flock to bookstores for final volume of Harry Potter magic - International Herald Tribune
Rowling, who created the boy wizard in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" a decade ago, was giving a midnight reading to 500 competition-winning children in the grand Victorian surroundings of London's Natural History Museum.
In this article: Harry Potter, London, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Royal Mail, Amazon, Los Angeles, U.S. Postal Service, Lord Voldemort, and United States
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CNN | March 10, 2009
Rare Harry Potter book fetches $19K at auction
...were printed in the millions, the Heritage Auction Galleries said. The book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," includes an autograph from author J.K. Rowling. It's the first book in the Harry Potter series and was published in...
In this article: Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Dyslexia, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Dallas, Texas, United States, and CNN
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Wikipedia | October 24, 2009
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...an account of the experience on her website saying: Rowling completed Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1995 and the manuscript was sent off to several prospective agents . The second agent she tried, Christopher Little, offered...
In this article: Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, Lord Voldemort, Hogwarts School, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Scholastic, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. It describes how Harry discovers he is a wizard, makes close friends and a few enemies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and with the help of his friends thwarts an attempted comeback by the evil wizard Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents and tried to kill Harry when he was one year old.
The book was published on 30 June 1997 by Bloomsbury in London, and in the United States under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Scholastic Corporation in 1998. It won most of the UK book awards that were judged by children, and other awards in the USA. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999, and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has been translated into several other languages and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name.
Most reviews were very favourable, commenting on Rowling's imagination, humour, simple, direct style and clever plot construction, although a few complained that the final chapters looked rushed. The writing has been compared to that of Jane Austen, one of Rowling's favourite authors, of Roald Dahl, whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter, and of the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer. While some commentators thought the book looked backwards to Victorian and Edwardian boarding school stories, others thought it placed the genre firmly in the modern world by featuring contemporary ethical and social issues.
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