Reading Harry Potter
Subtitle: Critical Essays (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: May 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780313320675
Subjects: Children's Literature - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Harry Potter; Literary Criticism & Collections / Children's Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books and reading; Children; Children's stories, English; Criticism and interpretation; English-speaking countries; Fantasy fiction, English; History and criticism; Rowling, J. K
First sentence: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series offers a highly entertaining set of variations on three stock formulae for children's fiction: the initiation of a wizard, the boys' school story, and the story of an orphan recovering from loss to find a place in the world.