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大香蕉性Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter ries written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. It describes how Harry discovers he is a wizard, makes clo 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 when Harry was one year old.
The book was published on 30 June 1997 by Bloomsbury in London, while in 1998 Scholastic Corporation published an edition for the United States market under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The novel 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-lling fiction in August 1999, and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has been translated into veral 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, simpl
e, 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, who 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.
工作调动证明Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, along with the rest of the Harry Potter ries, has been attacked by veral religious groups and banned in some countries becau of accusations that the novels promote witchcraft. However, some Christian
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commentators have written that the book exemplifies important Christian viewpoints, including the power of lf-sacrifice and the ways in which people's decisions shape their personalities. Educators regard Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and its quels as an important aid in improving literacy becau of the books' popularity. The ries has also been ud as a source of object lessons in educational techniques, sociological analysis and marketing.
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