Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphan boy discovers he is a wizard, and everything he thought he knew about his life was wrong.
The Boy Who Lived
J.K. Rowling's 1997 debut follows Harry Potter, who on his eleventh birthday learns he is a wizard and is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Raised by cold, resentful relatives, Harry steps into a world of magic, friendship, and danger, where he uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths and confronts the dark wizard who orphaned him.
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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
"J.K. Rowling
Rowling conceived Harry Potter on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990 and spent five years developing the world before submitting the manuscript. It was rejected by twelve publishers before Bloomsbury accepted it.
The series has sold over 600 million copies worldwide and been translated into 85 languages. The books reignited childhood reading culture and transformed the publishing industry's view of children's fiction.