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titleThe Harry Potter stories have a huge following all over the world/titlecategory3/categoryI am deeply fascinated by the huge universal popularity of the Harry Potter books. The Harry Potter novels were written by the UK writer J.K. Rowling. She was born on 31 July 1965. Her full name is Joanne Rowling. But she writes under the alias J.K. Rowling because primarily her publishing company thought it was a good idea to hide the aspect that she is a woman. The publishing house feared it could have a negative effect on the sales figures if everybody promptly recognizes that the author is a woman. Consequently, instead of using her first name she used two letters. As she has no middle name she chose Kathleen as basis for the K. in her alias. Kathleen is the name of her grandma.
The initial Harry Potter novel – Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone – was published in June 1997 in in Great Britain. Very funny is the fact that only thousand pieces of the first story were published at that time. The original title of the novel was not Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, but Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. But when the novel was publicized to the US market in September 1998, it was renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.
After that Joanne wrote some additional Harry Potter stories. Today the Harry Potter series is made of 7 books. These are:
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liNovel 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone/liliNovel 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/liliNovel 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/liliNovel 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/liliNovel 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/liliNovel 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince/liliNovel 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows/li/ul
The Harry Potter novels have been translated into over 60 languages and have been published all over the world. Besides the impressing success in the USA and Britain, Harry Potter is also very famous in European countries. The Harry Potter stories have been published to the German audience under these headers:
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liVol. 1: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen/liliVol. 2: a href=http://astore.amazon.de/harry-potter-buchshop-21/detail/3551551685Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens/a/liliVol. 3: Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban/liliVol. 4: Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch/liliVol. 5: a href=http://astore.amazon.de/harry-potter-buchshop-21/detail/3551555559Harry Potter und der Orden des Phoenix/a/liliVol. 6: Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz/liliVol. 7: a href=http://astore.amazon.de/harry-potter-buchshop-21/detail/3551577773Harry Potter und die Heiligtuemer des Todes/a/li/ul
I must admit that I did not have the time to read all the books. But there are kids who know them all, which is quite impressive and contributes to the huge success.
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Dec 07 2008