Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

1st Scholastic trade paperback printing (89)
  • 4.26 ·
  • 719 Ratings
  • 12451 Want to read
  • 1112 Currently reading
  • 1135 Have read

Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years.

But all that is about change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him...if Harry can survive the encounter.
(back cover)

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Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Pages
309

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哈利・波特与魔法石
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2008, Scholastic
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2003, Raincoast Books
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הארי פוטר וחדר הסודות
2001, Yediʻot Aḥronot, Sifre ḥemed, Sifre ʻaliyat ha-gag
in Hebrew
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Harry Potter a kámen mudrců
2001, Albatros
in Czech - 2. vyd.
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Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal
2000-09, Emecé Editores
Hardcover in Spanish - Primera edición
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Harry Potter I Kamie Filozoficzny
2000, Media Rodzina
paperback in Polish
Cover of: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
1999-09, Scholastic Inc.
paperback in English - First Scholastic paperback printing
Cover of: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
1999-09, Scholastic Inc.
paperback in English - First Scholastic trade paperback printing

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Table of Contents

1. The Boy Who Lived --
2. The Vanishing Glass --
3. The Letters from No One --
4. The Keeper of the Keys --
5. Diagon Alley --
6. The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters --
7. The Sorting Hat --
8. The Potions Master --
9. The Midnight Duel --
10. Halloween --
11. Quidditch --
12. The Mirror of Erised --
13. Nicolas Flamel --
14. Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback --
15. The Forbidden Forest --
16. Through the Trapdoor --
17. The Man with Two Faces.

Edition Notes

USA

Published in
New York
Series
Harry Potter, #1
Copyright Date
2008

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
vi, 309p.
Number of pages
309

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32050615M
Internet Archive
harrypottersorce0000rowl
ISBN 10
059035342X
ISBN 13
9780590353427
OCLC/WorldCat
741310793
Goodreads
45286449

Work Description

Harry Potter #1

When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

They are swiftly confiscated by his aunt and uncle.

Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a strange man bursts in with some important news: Harry Potter is a wizard and has been awarded a place to study at Hogwarts.

And so the first of the Harry Potter adventures is set to begin.
(source)

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Mr. And Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
added by Lisa.

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June 12, 2024 Edited by AgentSapphire reverted to revision 7
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