Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
J.K. Rowling

This young adult fiction is the debut novel from the magical realist Harry Potter series. Harry is an orphan, living with his aunt and uncle and their son Dudley. He finds out that he is no ordinary boy at all, when on his 11th birthday he receives an invitation to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, discovering his magical abilities, making new friends and eventually fighting evil itself.

/ · · 1997

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2014. 352 pp., ISBN 9781408855652

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