Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

ISBN-13: 9781408865408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 384 str.

JK Rowling

Opis

Endlos und zäh wie Kaugummi erscheinen Harry die Sommerferien. Wenn seine Pflegeeltern, die Dursleys, nicht Angst hätten, er würde sie alle in Mistkäfer verwandeln, müsste er sicherlich die ganze Zeit im Besenschrank verbringen.

Auf das neue Schuljahr aber freut sich Harry sehr. Doch wie sollte es anders sein - auch dieses verläuft nicht ohne Zwischenfälle. Erst verpasst er mit seinem Freund Ron den Zug nach Hogwarts, dann läuft beim ersten Quidditch-Spiel alles schief und schließlich taucht etwas Unheimliches im Schloss auf, für das sogar der weise Dumbledore keine Erklärung hat.

Recenzje

And you thought wizardry was for children. Harry Potter will make you think again. He casts his spells on grown-ups too James Naughtie

O autorze

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter series, as well as several stand-alone novels and a bestselling crime fiction series. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Smash hit movie adaptations followed. The Harry Potter books have now sold over 600 million copies worldwide in 85 languages and been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours. To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. Harry's story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, and which is now playing in multiple locations around the world. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties from which she donated to her charitable trust, Volant, to help charities working to alleviate the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her latest children's novel, The Christmas Pig, was published in 2021. J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including the OBE and Companion of Honour, the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a Blue Peter Gold Badge. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children's care reform charity Lumos. J.K. Rowling lives in Scotland with her family.