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Alchemy in fiction (Book Guide): Alchemy (novel), Alchemy in art and entertainment, Fullmetal Alchemist, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, ... The Alchemist (novel), The Alchemist (play)
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Paperback. BooksLLC.net 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781230770840
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Alchemy (novel), Alchemy in art and entertainment, Fullmetal Alchemist, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone, The Alchemist (novel), The Alchemist (play), The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Enchantress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The Merlin Mystery, The Solar Anus. Excerpt: 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 Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents when Harry was one year old. The book, which is J.K. Rowling's debut novel, was published on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury in London. 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 US. 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 seemed 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
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