The novel has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it the second best-selling novel of all time.
It has been translated into at least 73 other languages, and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name, as have all six of its sequels. 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 19. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and other awards in the US. It was published in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school, and with the help of his friends, he faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.
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The first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J.
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