Novels set in England (Book Guide): A Clockwork Orange, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Candide

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 70. Chapters: A Clockwork Orange, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Candide, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Sense and Sensibility, The Wind in the Willows, Emma, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Railway Children, Amadis de Gaula, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Black Beauty, The Borrowers, King of the Wind, The Little White Horse, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Autumn Term, Lord of the Nutcracker Men, Chinese Cinderella, The Island of Sheep, Anita and Me, A Slight Trick of the Mind, Jeeves in the Offing, The Last Crossing, Miss Marjoribanks. 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 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-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, simpl...